Summary Of Is This Genocide By Nicholas Kristof

260 Words2 Pages
Nicholas Kristof in the article, Is this Genocide? (2017), suggests that the actions of the Myanmar army was less of ethnic cleansing and more like Genocide. Kristof supports his suggestion by focusing on 3 survivors of the gruesome killings and telling their stories of what happened and how it has affected them. Kristof hopes to open people’s eyes and convince them this was an act of genocide, so that we can stop something like this from happening again.
The author uses a sympathetic and serious tone for high authorities who can potentially put this to an end. The victims described in the article witnessed their loved ones get murdered right in front of them. The men and boys were shot and the young children either had their throats