The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim, shows, sadly, that more than half a century since the Holocaust, and other genocidal acts since then, the world community will not come to the aid of endangered minorities. The Rohingyas are on their own. The world does not care.
This books explains how the Rohingya were transformed into “the other” by the government of Myanmar (Burma). Ibrahim illustrates what Timothy Snyder has written of the Nazis in World War II: the prime way to commit genocide is to strip a people of their national, legal rights. Once that is done, a minority group is at the mercy of the government, and other groups. Without access to the legal apparatus of the state, genocide is nearly inevitable.
The sad take away from this book is that minority groups have to have some kind of self-defense (as backup) especially if they find themselves in a situation like the Rohingya. Humanity is not yet evolved enough to treat the so-called stranger with love and care. We don't risk our well being for others.
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