WASHINGTON – The United States’ official discovering on Monday (March 21) that Myanmar’s military dedicated genocide towards the nation’s Rohingya minority is a morale-boosting milestone – however it’s unlikely to materially change their standing or the destiny of over a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Congress, nonetheless, will take some motion based mostly on the discovering, analysts say. This is “the opening salvo in the roll-out of a wider US strategy for responding to the current situation in Myanmar that has been requested by the Senate,” Ms Priscilla Clapp, a former high US diplomat in Myanmar and now a senior adviser on the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, instructed The Straits Times.