As one of the main destinations favoured by the Rohingya, mainly because Islam is the religion of the federation, Malaysia may soon see more of the persecuted Myanmar minority arriving in our waters.

This, as a study by the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at the Queen Mary University of London, have found that the Rohingya is now at the final stages of organised genocide at the hands of Buddhist extremist with the collusion of local authorities, as reported by TIME magazine.

Perhaps nothing more described their desperate conditions than the following words conveyed by a Rohingya detainee to the ISCI team.

“If the international community can’t help us, please drop a bomb on us and kill all of us."

This is the lament of a Rohingya woman detained in one of several camps blockaded by the army and security forces, with the sanction of Myanmar authorities which has stripped them of their nationality, identity, mobility and means of sustenance.

Her plight is shared by many of the one million or so Rohingya who live in squalid conditions in what can only be compared to internment camps of previous world wars.

TIME reported that the ISCI study showed that the systematic expulsion of the Rohingya from state records and official recognition, as well as disenfranchisement from all facets of civilized society was not only done after pressure from religious extremist but at times, with the nod from local authorities.

So much so that complete extermination of the Rohingya is now a very real possibility.

Because of this, the TIME report said that there is a growing likelihood that Rohingya will take to the seas en masse in order to flee their country in the coming months, falling prey to people-smugglers with often deadly consequences.

“Many Rohingya tell us that their options are to stay in Rakhine state and face death or flee the country.

“Many of them know that attempting to flee the country is in itself life-threatening, and they’re willing to take those risks because the situation in Rakhine state is as bad as it is," TIME quoted Matthew Smith, executive director of Bangkok-based rights watchdog Fortify Rights as saying.

The previous exodus, which peaked mid this year saw boatloads of Rohingya arriving in countries like Malaysia.

TIME reports that this was not only enabled and encouraged but also enforced by government authorities, quoting interviews conducted by al-Jazeera for its new documentary Genocide Agenda reveals.

“They said, ‘You are Muslim and you are not allowed to live in Rakhine state. Get on the boat and flee wherever you want,’” an elderly Rohingya man says, recounting the presence of members of Burma’s security forces, army and police who forced them into the vessels.

When his elder brother tried to resist, Rakhine Buddhists hacked him to death with a sword on the spot, he tells al-Jazeera before breaking down in tears, recounted TIME in its article.

However, the Rohingya may not find much respite despite coming to majority-Muslim countries like Malaysia, for even here they are consigned to either languish in the camps of human traffickers or detained in Immigration detention should they make it ashore.

Many of those who made it ashore in the last major exodus from Myanmar are still languishing in detention camps.

For those who managed to navigate the trials and tribulations of being trafficked, and escape the dragnet of Malaysian law enforcement, they became undocumented illegal immigrants living without any official rights or protection.

Indeed their lives is perhaps not that different from when they were in Myanmar, minus the open persecution and killings, which is probably enough for most of the Rohingya.