Perpetrators of genocides have long
used identification documents to
discriminate, dehumanize, and then
carry out mass violence against
protected groups. This was the case
during the Holocaust of the Jewish
population and the Rwandan
genocide of the Tutsi population, and
it is the case of the ongoing genocide
of the Rohingya population in
Myanmar.
This report, Genocide by Attrition: The
Role of Identity Documents in the
Holocaust and the Genocides of Rwanda
and Myanmar, provides comparative case
studies of these three genocides and the
use of identification documents to carry
out the international crime of genocide. It
provides new information on the
Myanmar military junta’s ongoing
targeting of Rohingya people in
Rakhine State, and it makes
detailed recommendations to
address impunity by the Myanmar
junta, hold perpetrators
accountable, and end the
ongoing genocide of the
Rohingya people.
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