The Biden administration formally determined that Myanmar’s military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya, a US official told CNN this Sunday (20).
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will publicly announce the resolve that human rights groups have championed for years at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, on Monday.
Reuters reported for the first time on the government’s recognition of the genocide.
So far, the US has not come close to declaring genocide for the atrocities – including mass murders and rapes – committed in 2017 against the Muslim Rohingya minority. The violence has forced nearly a million people to flee, and the United Nations has recommended that top military officials face charges of genocide.
A US State Department report released quietly in 2018 found that violence against Rohingyas in Rakhine State in northern Myanmar was “extreme, large-scale, widespread, and apparently aimed at terrorizing the population and driving out Rohingya residents.” ”.
The State Department has sanctioned several Myanmar military officials, including Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, for their role in committing these human rights abuses.
Source: CNN Brasil
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