In the shadow of Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, a chilling and largely overlooked campaign of extermination is unfolding. Far from the headlines dominated by armed clashes, a slow and calculated weaponization of starvation and deprivation is being deployed against the Rohingya people, with devastating consequences. Over the past few weeks alone, at least 25 Rohingya have died from starvation and another seven from a lack of medical care, according to reports from the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) and investigative coverage by The Washington Post. These deaths are not incidental or collateral damage of conflict-they are the direct outcome of deliberate policies imposed by Myanmar’s military junta, marking a new and horrifying phase in a genocidal campaign.

The Rohingya crisis is not new. Since at least 2017, the Myanmar military-known locally as the Tatmadaw-has pursued a violent, state-sanctioned campaign of ethnic cleansing against this Muslim minority group in Rakhine State. Entire villages were razed, families slaughtered, women systematically raped, and more than 700,000 Rohingya driven into exile, mostly into neighboring Bangladesh. What remains today is an apartheid-like system where some 600,000 Rohingya remain trapped inside Rakhine under conditions of extreme deprivation and isolation.

Now, the military has shifted tactics. The guns, bombs, and physical massacres have been supplemented with........

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