“‘There is no such thing as Rohingya,’ said U Kyaw San Hla, an officer in Rakhine’s state security ministry. ‘It is fake news.’ Such denials bewilder Mr. Kyaw Min. He has lived in Myanmar all of his 72 years, and the history of the Rohingya as a distinct ethnic group in Myanmar stretches back for generations before. Now, human rights watchdogs warn that much of the evidence of the Rohingya’s history in Myanmar is in danger of being eradicated by a military campaign the United States has declared to be ethnic cleansing.”
Source: ‘No Such Thing as Rohingya’: Myanmar Erases a History – The New York Times