Endnotes 1. The former military government changed the country’s name to “Myanmar” in 1989. The official government policy of both the United States and United Kingdom is to refer to the country as “Burma.” 2. This cover appeared in the Europe, Middle East, Africa, South Pacific, and Asia editions of the July 1, 2013, issue of Time Magazine. It was not used for the cover of the Mainland US edition. 3. Demographic data pulled from the US Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook. 4. In addition to International Crisis Group 2014b, see Winn 2014 for an example. 5. For further details on curtailment of religious freedom for minorities, consult the US State Department’s yearly International Religious Freedom report, which can be accessed online here: http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/. 6. For example, Christian ethnic minority groups received support from Western Christian organizations, including training for the insurgency groups operating in refugee camps across the Thai border, which served to fuel the military’s accusation that Christians in Myanmar were conduits for foreign influence seeking regime change. 7. The Rohingya community is not a formally recognized ethnic group in the country. They are of Bengali descent, some having migrated to Myanmar multiple generations ago, and some having migrated illegally more recently. As a nonrecognized ethnic group, they have few political and legal rights in the country. They are often poor and—although data is limited, making confirmation difficult—anecdotal evidence suggests that they tend to practice a more socially conservative form of Islam (Deobandi).