The Biden administration has formally decided that violence dedicated in opposition to the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s army quantities to genocide and crimes in opposition to humanity, US officers instructed Reuters, a transfer that advocates say ought to bolster efforts to carry the junta that now runs Myanmar accountable.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will announce the choice on Monday (March 20) on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, US officers stated, which presently options an exhibit on the plight of the Rohingya. It comes practically 14 months after he took workplace and pledged to conduct a brand new evaluate of the violence.
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Myanmar’s armed forces launched a army operation in 2017 that compelled not less than 730,000 of the primarily Muslim Rohingya from their houses and into neighbouring Bangladesh, the place they recounted killings, mass rape and arson. In 2021, Myanmar’s army seized energy in a coup.
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