The genocidal ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims was not an overnight phenomenon, of course. And international agencies monitoring the world for serious crimes have done a better job of identifying and tracing its trajectory. As early as 2013, prominent human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch were releasing warnings that the government of Myanmar was conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.

SEED: The gap between early NGO warnings and international intervention raises the question of when warnings fail to trigger action.

DEFINE: Clarifies the timeline of the Rohingya crisis, showing international agencies detected and warned of ethnic cleansing starting in 2013.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 142