section_path: History/Myanmar crisis/Rohingya genocide
section_name: Rohingya genocide
paragraph_text: Rohingya genocide
  
  The Rohingya genocide erupting in Myanmar in August 2017—killing thousands of Rohingya people in Myanmar, driving most into neighboring Bangladesh, and continuing for months —created a global outcry demanding ASEAN take action against the civilian-military coalition government of Myanmar, which had long discriminated against the Rohingya, and had launched the 2017 attacks upon them.