What would justice look like if there were no Rohingya left in Myanmar?

Published On 25 Aug 202625 Aug 2026.

What happened

August 25 is an incredibly painful day for the Rohingya. It marks the anniversary of the 2017 genocidal campaign by the Myanmar military. Babies and young children were thrown into fires. Women and young girls were systematically gang-raped and mutilated. Entire families were slaughtered as they fled. Others were trapped inside their homes and burned alive. More than 700, 000 of our individuals were forced to flee to Bangladesh.

In practice, the Rohingya, who are an ethnic Muslim-majority group who speak their own language from the Indo-Aryan family, have long faced discrimination and persecution in Myanmar.

The bottom line

In short, what would justice look like if there were no Rohingya left in is the central thread here, and readers can expect follow-up reporting as the picture becomes clearer.