Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has sparked a backlash after encouraging his followers to visit Myanmar, where the government is accused of genocide against the Rohingya minority.

"(If) you're willing to travel a bit, go to Myanmar," Dorsey tweeted after traveling to the country to take part in a meditation retreat.  "Myanmar is an absolutely beautiful country," he added, "The people are full of joy and the food is amazing."

No doubt, but not so much for the Rohingya Muslim who the government considers to be illegal migrants from Bangladesh - even though the vast majority of Rohingya have lived in Myanmar for more than a century.  Twitter users attacked Dorsey on his own platform, reminding him that Myanmar's military and nationalist mobs attacked and burned many Rohingya villages in Rakhine state. 

"The people are so full of joy!  I suppose you didn't visit any of the hundreds of villages burnt by government forces or talk to any of the more than half million Rohingya forced to flee the country who are now living in overwhelmed refugee camps in Bangladesh," wrote one Twitter user.  "Meditate on THAT."

Another user wrote, "It's a country actively committing genocide against its own people, but great job advertising for them."

Starting in 2016, Myanmar's oppression of the Rohingya increased to truly unconscionable levels:  Myanmar troops and civilians are accused of mass rapes and murders, killing more than 10,000, and burning their villages.  More than 720,000 people fled to neighboring Bangladesh.  The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights described the atrocities against them as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".  UN-appointed investigators have called for top military officials in Myanmar to be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.