Adam Roberto

“Free #Rohingya Coalition is going to launch an online campaign called “Boycott #Myanmar” on December 9. On this day in 1984, UN General Assembly adopted the #genocide convention. We urge all to join our campaign.” -Ro Nay San Lwin

In 2015, Myanmars military began forcing out a group of people called Rohingya from the Myanmar state of Rakhine. The Rohingya are an ethnically muslim group that have lived in Myanmar for many years. Since the start of this attack on the Rohingya by the Myanmar government, tens of thousands have been forced from their home to places like Bangladesh due to the increasing violence. There has been public outcry from all across the globe to stop these acts. Now, it is being brought to the United Nations to charge the Myanmar government with genocidal acts and an organization called Free Rohingya Coalition are calling for a boycott against Myanmar.

I find this tweet and this movement to be very interesting. Just by looking at this tweet, it doesn’t give the reader much on what exactly is being boycotted, it only states that the country is being boycotted. It causes the reader to have to look more into the whole crisis in Myanmar, or if they already know about it, it at least causes them to look into this specific Boycotting Myanmar movement. I would like to know if the person who made the tweet wanted people to look more into the movement by being vague, or does not want to say a lot about the movement for another reason. This could also be to avoid censorship by the Myanmar government.