Woman’s account is one of a wave of reports of murder and rape by soldiers in Myanmar amid claims of genocide, reports The Guardian in an article featuring Penny Green, Professor of Law and Globalisation and Director of International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). She said: “It’s important to understand genocide as a process which may evolve over many years, beginning with the stigmatisation of the target community and moving into physical violence, forced isolation, systematic weakening and finally mass annihilation.”