Rohingya refugees shout slogans as they take part in a protest at the Kutupalong refugee camp to mark the one year anniversary of their exodus in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh August 25, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
SEPTEMBER 26th, 2018
By Patryk Krych | The World Daily
Demands for acknowledgement of the Myanmar Rohingya genocide
Mere days after a State Report detailing the Myanmar’s military Rohingya Muslim exterminations had been issued in Washington, the United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee had demanded that the Trump Administration recognise the country’s military campaign as an act of genocide against Myanmar’s Muslim populous.
US officials had mentioned that the language used within the report, only hardly describing the events as acts of genocide, but heavy with such implications, had been the topic of heavy discussion for over a month now, causing the delay of the report thus far. The reports have been sourced and confirmed by United Nations investigators last month, hence the calling for action from the Trump Administration.
Such an acknowledgement from the US government, a confirmation and declaration of genocide on Myanmar’s part, would likely allow Washington to put more disciplinary force on the country. If members of Congress press the matter, such a thing may yet be achieved.
The committee’s representative; Ed Royce, had said, “Making a formal determination of genocide must be the next step for the US,” whilst at a hearing, speaking of the subject at hand of course, with the hearing itself titled “Genocide Against the Burmese Rohingya,” two days after the initial report from the UN, “Defining these atrocities for what they are is critical to building international public awareness – and support – to stop them.”
No immediate response has been made by the US Department of State thus far. One was expected, after Royce directly asked, as the Department of State will be in charge of making the determination. The report detailed the injustices occurring in Myanmar, referring to the military campaign’s “well-planned and coordinated” killings, murders, rapes and tortures against the Rohingya.
With over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims having been forced to bolt for the neighbouring country of Bangladesh, the situation is thought to be growing progressively dire. Earlier this month, it’s been announced by the ICC that they would start their own investigations and examinations of the deportation of Rohingya, to establish whether they could be constituted as war crimes, or violations of human rights.
The two Reuters journalists who’d been arrested under allegedly false circumstances back on September 3rd are still a heavy topic of debate, as they were assisting in the investigations of these Rohingya murders, right before their arrest. The administration is still being pressed to look into the release of the journalists; Wa Lone, aged32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, aged 28. The reporters claimed that police had handed them strange documents at a café, moments before they were arrested for possession of the documents. They pleaded ‘not guilty’ at their trial, and are yet to be addressed any further.
By Patryk Krych | The World Daily
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