The Rohingya's dark anniversary must spur global action

 It is not enough to end the violence against the Rohingya. Far more must be done to ensure their safety in Myanmar.
It was exactly one year ago, on 25 August 2017, that the Myanmar military launched a murderous "clearance operation" in Rakhine State. In the space of a few months, the security forces and their proxies killed thousands of Rohingya people, torched scores of villages to the ground, engaged in widespread sexual violence, and drove more than 700,000 women, men and children to flee into Bangladesh.
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Myanmar has for decades pursued its genocidal policies against Rohingya, and the violence that started last year merely echoes similarly brutal military campaigns in the late 1970s and early 1990s. The world must act now to break this cycle of violence.
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While Myanmar has announced a "commission of inquiry" into the violence in Rakhine State, this is just another smokescreen for the international community. Myanmar has a long track record of establishing similar bodies which have never led to anything but whitewashes of its crimes.
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