According to the United Nations Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi Yet the signs of this genocide have been visible for years For generations this Muslim group has suffered routine discrimination violence arbitrary arrest & detention extortion & other abuses by the Buddhist majority As horrifying massacres have unfolded in 2017 international human rights groups have accused the regime of complicity in an ethnic cleansing campaign against them Authorities refuse to recognise the Rohingyas as one of Myanmar's 135 national races' denying them citizenship rights in the country of their birth & severely restricting many aspects of ordinary life from marriage to free movement In this updated edition Azeem Ibrahim chronicles the events leading up to the current final cleansing of the Rohingya population & issues a clarion call to protect a vulnerable little known Muslim minority He makes a powerful appeal to use the lessons of the twentieth century to stop this genocide in the twenty-first