Just imagine that right in front of you, your house is on fire.

There's smoke everywhere.

Gunshots are being fired at you while your own daughter is being burned alive right in front of your eyes.

This might sound like a nightmare, but this is actually an

ongoing reality for our brothers and sisters from the Rohingya. Seven years ago

today, the military of Myanmar, also known as Burma, launched a brutal campaign against the Rohingya,

a Muslim minority and Rakhine state. This campaign destroyed villages, killed thousands,

and forced over 700,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh, targeting

them solely for their ethnic and religious identity.

Villages were systematically burned to the ground and families were torn apart with countless men executed in cold blood.

Women and girls subjected to unspeakable sexual violence and children mercilessly killed. The military's actions were the culmination of

decades-old calculated policies aimed at erasing the Rohingya from the very fabric of that society.

Incidious propaganda painted them as outsiders and threats from the 1960s onwards.

draconian laws restricted every aspect of the Rohingya's lives, marriage, childbearing, and citizenship, stripping them of their humanity and turning them into ghosts in their own land.

In August 2017, the military of Myanmar killed over 25,000 Native Rohingya and then forced

over 700,000 of them to become refugees that now find themselves scattered across the world in places like Thailand, India, Bangladesh, and Malaysia.

The atrocities are staggering. An estimated 18,000 Rohingya women and girls were raped and 36,000 were thrown into blazing fires.

The Rohingya were not only murdered, they were subjected to acts of barbarism intended to instill terror and hopelessness in them forever

so that they never find peace again

We cannot let human displacement that disproportionately targets Muslims become the norm of the world.

The coastal shores of Cox's bazaar in Bangladesh

holds over a million Rohingya living in terrible conditions.

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