Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold: Myanmar and the Rohingya

Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold is a powerful account of one of the most devastating human crises of the 21st century. Drawing on firsthand research conducted in Burma (Myanmar) and neighboring countries, the book uncovers how the Rohingya Muslims have been systematically isolated, impoverished, and targeted in a state-led genocidal campaign. Through more than 150 interviews with survivors, local officials, religious leaders, and international actors, the authors reveal how discrimination, mass displacement, and organized brutality have created conditions that meet the legal, criminological, and moral definition of genocide. The book also challenges the silence and complicity of the international community. Accessible and grounded in rigorous research, this book speaks to scholars, activists, policymakers, and anyone concerned with justice, human rights, and the global failure to prevent genocide.

Penny Green is a professor of law and globalisation at Queen Mary University of London, founder of the International State Crime Initiative, and editor-in-chief of State Crime. She is the author of State Crime and Civil Activism: On the Dialectics of Repression and Resistance (Routledge, 2019), Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar (International State Crime Initiative, 2015), and State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption (Pluto Press, 2004).

Thomas MacManusis a senior lecturer in state crime and acting director of the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at the school of law at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar (International State Crime Initiative, 2015) and State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood (Routledge, 2018).