In solidarity with the Rohingya people, Anonymous has launched a series of successful distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against multiple Myanmar (Burma) government websites.
Launched on Sunday, March 24, the DDOS attacks come as part of Operation Rohingya ( #OpRohingya ) a campaign to bring awareness to the persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
In addition to the DDOS attacks, LeakSource reports multiple other Myanmar government websites have been defaced.
Anonymous hacktivists accuse the Myanmar government of being complicit with the ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Rohingya people currently taking place in the country.
Multiple Myanmar government websites were hit by the DDOS attacks, including the President’s Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Information, the Central Bank, the Ministry of Home Affairs and other .gov.mm websites. Softpedia reports most of the government websites attacked by the Anonymous hacktivists remain inaccessible as of March 25.
In addition to the cyberattacks, the hacktivists have created petitions , launched a Twitter storm in which they posted a large number of tweets containing the #RohingyaNOW hashtag, and organized a “paper storm” outside the CNN building in LA to protest against the fact that the mainstream media is ignoring the situation in Myanmar.
The following is an excerpt from a statement announcing Operation Rohingya:
The persecution of the Rohingya people is severe. The Burmese junta considers them to be sub-human and denies them almost all basic human rights. Often they are subject to torture, gang rape, starvation, slave labor, and forced to reside in the most dire camps in the world - some call these refugee camps but they are concentration camps. Over the past few months, thousands of Rohingya have been encouraged onto boats and sent out to sea with not enough food or fuel, and left there to die. Some of the boats were attacked and sunk, with women and children on board.
Barbarous acts are being carried out by Neo-Nazi racist groups like the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party, Arakan Liberation Army, NaSaKa border police and 969 monks led by Monk Wirathu, the self proclaimed Bin Laden of Buddhism. The Government of Myanmar is orchestrating these crimes.
We call on the Anonymous collective to stand with those for whom no one else will stand. We call on Anonymous and all supporters of human rights to stand against this great injustice, to give the Rohingya a voice, before they are completely eliminated.
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