In Southeast Asia lies the small nation of Burma (better known as Myanmar). It borders India, Bangladesh, China, Thailand, and Laos. Myanmar has a modest of 53 million, but that number is ever declining because of genocide of the Rohingya Muslims.

So who are the Rohingya?

The Rohingya are a small ethnic group, who have lived in the majority Buddhist nation of Myanmar for centuries. The Buddhists (and other larger groups) have had their quarrels with the Rohingya, but the Buddhists have always prevailed.

In 1982 came the biggest blow for the Rohingyas - the government of Myanmar rejected recognition of the Rohingyas as a 'real ethnic group' and also denied all citizenship, and thus rendered them stateless.

Currently, Rohingya people live in the small region of Arakan. Their home and region have widespread disease because of contaminated water, improper/lack of medical care, and immense poverty in general. Homes are often not even viable; most houses look like ghetto camps with no plumbing, running water, or food for that matter.

Myanmar implemented an "unofficial" genocide to rid the country of any and all Rohingya Muslims. This process actually began in 2015, but it only gained momentum in mid-2017. Government officials have allowed and encouraged the burning of villages, murdering of men and boys, and the abduction and rape of countless women and girls.

So why is the government going after these people?

Well, there's an easy answer to this question: ignorance and intolerance. Since biblical times, the universe has experienced the human race's lack of tolerance; one group oppresses and another group suffers.

The Native Americans with the Explorers, the Armenians with the Turkish, the Jewish with the Fascist Party, the Tutsi with the Hutu, and now the Rohingya with Myanmar - all of this is proof that history repeats itself. It doesn't matter that people have committed similar mistakes; we say we will change and learn from others mistakes, we say that we have understood the consequences of our actions, we say that it will never happen again, but the truth is we never learn, understand, or repent. All that happens is history repeats itself.