Picking out a tweet is easy when studying Bangladesh, as the #iamrohingya hashtag and movement encompasses Burma, Bangladesh, and the Rohingya Nation as a whole. The Tweet here is only a small sample, this one by Amnesty International Nigeria’s twitter account. The majority are a call to arms, call for sympathy, pledges, and change in Burma. Every single one of the tweets provided context for the oppressed Rohingya’s plight, however none of them provided anything substantial for why the rohingya are being persecuted, simply that they are and that it is bad. This particular tweet is bringing awareness to the crisis and the ethnic cleansing, as well as sort of advertising the “i am rohingya” virtual experience film which was developed in Canada. The film is fourteen victim’s stories, as they tell it, portrayed by actors.
What is happening to the Rohingya in Myanmar right now is planned, deliberate and targeted. It is ethnic cleansing. #IamRohingya pic.twitter.com/2ksd8hpQ4g
— Amnesty Int. Nigeria (@AmnestyNigeria) September 29, 2017