The damage that the regime in Yangon is inflicting on Myanmar is incalculable. It is incalculable because it is damage deeper than the atrocities that can be documented; it is more profound that what can be quantified.
They are committing psychic mutilation of the entire population. They have invented a schism between their citizens, nurturing hate with meticulous care, all to tear their society to shreds; and the aftermath will take generations upon generations to repair.
In the United States, the racial schism began with the dehumanization of Africans and their enslavement, and generations have come and gone with the inherited myth of White Supremacy never dissolving, and we have been fighting and struggling and suffering from this psychic damage as a society from the beginning of the country until today.
In Myanmar, the leaders have chosen to create, to build the same type of savage mythology where it did not exist, or anyway, did not exist as savagely. What we in the US have been trying to rid ourselves of for generations, they are inventing and inflicting on the people, to pass on as an inheritance of hate to their children.
Revoking the citizenship of the Rohingya, with all its implications of negating their history and their humanity; teaching Burmese school children that their Rohingya brothers and sisters are invaders, are vermin, are subhuman; these are crimes against humanity. They are crimes not only against the Rohingya, but against the Burmese. Driving the Rohingya off the land on which their ancestors walked and worked, and in which every previous generation of Rohingya is buried, is a crime against Myanmar as a country, whose identity can only ever genuinely be derived from every person, every segment of the population that built the country.
It is abysmally criminal to teach the sons and daughters of Myanmar that their siblings are not human, and that they deserve extinction. Again, this is not only a crime against the Rohingya, Yangon is depriving the population of cohesion, of being able to value one another, appreciate one another, depriving them of being able to even know themselves properly. The regime is implanting psychopathy into the minds of Burmese children; and these are wounds that will outlive everyone alive in Myanmar today.