Raped, burned, murdered: Families need your help

	Raped, burned, murdered: Families need your help
	�We lost our children. We lost our husbands.� - Rohingya refugee Make an emergency donation to fund Amnesty�s Myanmar action plan. Dear friends, �The roof started burning. Pieces of it fell down and I was burned. The clothes I was wearing were also burned... I escaped. I had this fire on my entire body... I was rolling, rolling toward the rice field...We lost our children, we lost our husbands. It is very hard.�* This is just one tragic story of a Rohingya woman in Myanmar. She suffered horrific burns all over her body after the military stormed into her village and torched homes in a scorched earth campaign that the United Nations is calling �a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.� Amnesty International has conducted more than 120 interviews with Rohingya men, women, and children in Myanmar and Bangladesh, investigating and documenting the attacks. Please keep our crisis investigators in the field. We must continue to show evidence of these crimes to urge the global community to act. The Rohingya are a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority of about 1.1 million living mostly in west Myanmar. Since the end of August 2017, more than half a million have fled from their homes to cross the border in search of safety in neighboring Bangladesh. The Rohingya have been systematically targeted, brutalized and even murdered by the Myanmar military. Some are still trapped in Myanmar, unable to escape the violence, and targeted if they try. State-sponsored discrimination and persecution against the Rohingya have been going on for decades. Myanmar�s recent escalation in violence could have also been kept quiet. Amnesty crisis investigators need donations from people like you to continue to report on the atrocities and expose the truth. Our research aims to support our efforts urging: The UN Security Council to impose a comprehensive arms embargo as well as targeted financial sanctions against senior Myanmar military officials responsible for crimes against humanity. The US government to pressure Myanmar authorities to provide immediate unfettered access to northern Rakhine State for the U.N. fact-finding mission. The mission�s work is essential to investigate the human rights violations committed by all sides. The US government to demand that Myanmar halt the severe restrictions imposed on international and local aid organizations. These restrictions have deprived Rohingya of food, thereby compounding their suffering. The US government to significantly increase aid to provide food, medical care, water, sanitation, and shelter for the Rohingya. The US government to pressure the Myanmar civilian government to end the longstanding systemic discrimination against the Rohingya, who are denied citizenship under Myanmar law despite having lived in Myanmar for decades. We don�t accept any funding from governments for our campaigning and advocacy work. This allows us to be completely unbiased and independent. Donate and help us fight back against these latest atrocities. Thank you. Sincerely, Margaret Huang Executive Director, Amnesty International USA *From Amnesty report My World Is Finished published October 2017.
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