Most people didn't know what was happening in Rwanda until it was too late, and 800,000 people were dead. Right now, the fate of Burma's Rohingya people could be heading in the same dangerous direction. Already children have been hacked to death with machetes and unspeakable murders have been committed by the hundreds. Now racist thugs have distributed leaflets threatening to wipe out this small Burmese minority. All signs point to a coming horror, unless we act.

Genocides happen because we don't act on the obvious warning signs -- the kind we’re seeing now in Burma. The Rohingya are a peaceful and very poor people but they're hated because their skin is darker and they 'take jobs away' from the majority. There are 800,000 of them, and they could be gone if we don't act. We've failed too many peoples, let's not fail the Rohingya.  

There's one simple thing we can do as a global community of conscience. The UN has called on the Burmese government to take action to end the violence against Muslims. But this risks becoming an empty gesture unless they establish an independent international investigation -- let’s build a giant outcry to show UN leaders that they’ll have blood on their hands if they don’t act to stop the next Rwanda. Sign the urgent petition, and it will be delivered directly to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of their next session.