Trump Should Declare Myanmar Rohingya Campaign to Genocide

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However, this is not a standalone action, but the beginning of a tightening of U.S. policy on Myanmar that is reflective of the gravity of this charge.

Trump Should Declare Myanmar Rohingya Campaign to Genocide

<p class = "canvas-atom-canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "In an August 2018 Myanmar, the State of the United States, reported that the recent violence in the Rakhine State was widespread, widespread, and seemingly geared towards both terrorizing the population and driving the Rohingya residents. The scope and scale of the military operations are well planned and coordinated. In some areas, perpetrators used tactics that resulted in mass casualties, for example, locking people in houses to burn them, fencing off entire villages before shooting into the crowd, or sinking boats full of hundreds of Rohingya fleeing. "" Data-reactid = "26">In an August 2018 Myanmar, the State of the United States, reported that the recent violence in the Rakhine State was widespread, widespread, and seemingly geared towards both terrorizing the population and driving the Rohingya residents. The scope and scale of the military operations are well planned and coordinated. In some areas, perpetrators used tactics that resulted in mass casualties, for example, locking people in houses to burn them, fencing off entire villages before shooting into the crowd, or sinking boats full of hundreds of Rohingya fleeing.

<p class = "canvas-atom-canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Myanmar's Rohingya campaign a genocide. It is not necessarily a moral imperative, but a strategic imperative for an administration. Having been forced to flee to Bangladesh in 2017, the world has watched the plight of the over-the-hundred thousand Rohingya refugees with concern, and condemned the Myanmar government's brutal military campaign that drove them out of the government's refusal to ensure safe return accountability. This is the most recent United Nations report on the situation, where the investigators described the military as "genocidal intent" and called for the prosecution of the generals responsible for genocide. In response, the International Criminal Court has declared that the court has jurisdiction to do so and the UN Human Rights Council has overwhelmingly passed in support of creating an independent mechanism to expedite criminal investigations. "Data-reactid =" 27 ">Myanmar's Rohingya campaign a genocide. It is not necessarily a moral imperative, but a strategic imperative for an administration. Having been forced to flee to Bangladesh in 2017, the world has watched the plight of the over-the-hundred thousand Rohingya refugees with concern, and condemned the Myanmar government's brutal military campaign that drove them out of the government's refusal to ensure safe return accountability. This is the most recent United Nations report on the situation, where the investigators described the military as "genocidal intent" and called for the prosecution of the generals responsible for genocide. In response, the International Criminal Court has stated that the Court has jurisdiction to do so and the UN Human Rights Council has overwhelmingly voted in favor of creating an independent mechanism to expedite criminal investigations.

<p class = "canvas-atom-canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "The United Nations' 1948 Genocide Convention officially defines genocide as an act, or a particular group. Such acts may include killing members of the group, causing serious harm to children, trying to impose unacceptable conditions on them, preventing births in the group or forcibly transferring children of that group. The international community is coming to the realization that the plight of the Rohingya is just such a situation, and, as stipulated in the State Department report, we could draw that conclusion as "data-reactid =" 28 ">The United Nations' 1948 Genocide Convention officially defines genocide as an act, or a particular group. Such acts may include killing members of the group, causing serious harm to children, trying to impose unacceptable conditions on them, preventing births in the group or forcibly transferring children of that group. The international community is coming to the realization that the plight of the Rohingya is just such a situation, and, as stipulated in the State Department report, we could draw that conclusion as well.

<p class = "canvas-atom-canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Against this backdrop, the U.S. response has fallen flat, and it has been a leadership position that it would benefit from seizing. When presented with the opportunity to do so, the United States failed to do so. Likewise, during his speech at the UN General Assembly, President Donald Trump rightly called out the horrific situations in both Syria and Venezuela, but remained silent on the plight of the Rohingya. The decision, at least in the report, was deliberately limited to cover the legal implications of such language. The internal deliberations surrounding the report and the implications of it became so important that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at one point postponed its release indefinitely, only releasing it after pressure from legislators. But it is exactly that which is part of the imperative strategy for pushing for a formal declaration of genocide. Yes, the United States has enacted new sanctions in the recent past, but it has yet to move the position of the Myanmar government nor satisfy U.S. legislators. "Data-reactid =" 29 ">Against this backdrop, the U.S. response has fallen flat, and it has been a leadership position that it would benefit from seizing. When presented with the opportunity to do so, the United States failed to do so. Likewise, during his speech at the UN General Assembly, President Donald Trump rightly called out the horrific situations in both Syria and Venezuela, but remained silent on the plight of the Rohingya. The decision, at least in the report, was deliberately limited to cover the legal implications of such language. The internal deliberations surrounding the report and the implications of it became so important that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at one point postponed its release indefinitely, only releasing it after pressure from legislators. But it is exactly that which is part of the imperative strategy for pushing for a formal declaration of genocide. Yes, the United States has enacted new sanctions in the recent past, but it has yet to move the position of the Myanmar government nor satisfy U.S. legislators.

<p class = "canvas-atom-canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Myanmar's Rohingya campaign an act of genocide is one of the few bipartisan issues with support in Congress. Leaders and members of the Republican and Democratic parties, led by the Republican chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ed Royce, have urged the Trump administration to make a formal declaration of genocide. In a recent hearing, Chairman Royce stated: "Defining these atrocities for which they are critical to building international public awareness and support-to-stop." Eliot Engel, the committee's top Democrat, with a similar bipartisan statement being released by the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Data-reactid =" 30 ">Myanmar's Rohingya campaign an act of genocide is one of the few bipartisan issues with support in Congress. Leaders and members of the Republican and Democratic parties, led by the Republican chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ed Royce, have urged the Trump administration to make a formal declaration of genocide. In a recent hearing, Chairman Royce stated: "Defining these atrocities for which they are critical to building international public awareness and support-to-stop." Eliot Engel, the committee's top Democrat, with a similar bipartisan statement being released by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.