Washington calls Rohingya violence ‘genocide’

(Washington) The United States for the first time on Monday officially declared that the Muslim Rohingya minority had been the victim of a “genocide” perpetrated by the Burmese army in 2016 and 2017.

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“I have established that members of the Myanmar military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya in 2016 and 2017,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Washington.


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