Last month’s report of the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar confirms something that should have been obvious long ago: the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority of Rakhine State have been experiencing a genocide.

Shamefully, this genocide has been permitted to unfold in plain sight. Myanmar’s many crimes against the Rohingya — mass killing, torture, rape, forced starvation, expulsion, denial of basic health care and education, collective de facto stripping of citizenship, laws restricting Rohingya from marrying and having children, confinement in structures resembling concentration camps, and imposition of apartheid denying the Rohingya freedom of movement and access to livelihoods — have been meticulously documented in reports by multiple academic and human rights organizations since 2015, including the United Nations, Yale Law School’s Allard K Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London, Fortify Rights, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The persecution of the Rohingya is atrocious in scale but not exceptional in nature: it has been inspired and enabled by the decades-long persistence of military occupation, genocide, and apartheid in Palestine and Kashmir. Indeed, the Rohingya genocide has been actively aided and abetted by political, military, and economic support from both Israel and India.