How Myanmar stripped the Rohingya of citizenship, resulting in mass expulsions and a genocide case on the ICJ.
The Rohingya of Myanmar have confronted many years of discrimination and compelled displacement, and a case alleging genocide now sits earlier than the Worldwide Court docket of Justice.
This movie describes how army regimes rewrote citizenship legal guidelines to exclude Rohingya from registers and used identification paperwork, checkpoints and journey permits to manage motion. It additionally highlights how segregation, incitement and persevering with waves of violence normalised their erasure from the neighborhood.
Specializing in the 2016-2017 “clearance operations”, the movie paperwork village burnings, mass killings and the flight of a whole lot of 1000’s of Rohingya to Bangladesh. By way of survivor testimony and interviews with officers and authorized specialists, Myanmar: The Structure of Statelessness examines whether or not these crimes meet the authorized threshold for genocide, how Myanmar defends itself towards the allegation and what’s finally at stake when the court docket delivers its verdict.
Printed On 18 Aug 2026
