Two years after hundreds of thousands of Myanmar’s Muslim ethnic minority were forced to flee in a military-led crackdown, a new film called Mechanics of a Crime, reveals their persecution was premeditated. It comes as thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh agreed to be relocated on Sunday.
“I tried to tell this story, the Rohingya story, what’s been happening to these people for almost ten years”, explains Gwenlaouen Le Gouil, the director of the film Mechanics of a Crime.
His investigation began in 2012, five years before Myanmar’s “clearance operations” against the Rohingya began, and already then anti-Muslim sentiment was festering in Yangon, which the documentary highlights.
