US Says Myanmar Army Committed Genocide in Widespread, Systematic Attack on Muslim Minority | World – Play Crazy Game

Blinken also said that as long as the military junta is in power, no one in the country will be safe.

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In announcing the decision, Blinken said that the attacks against the Rohingya were widespread and systematic and that the evidence points to a clear intention to destroy the minority (the Rohingya are overwhelmingly Muslim).

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The definition could boost efforts to hold Myanmar’s generals accountable and prevent further atrocities, US officials believe. Activists welcomed the measure but called for concrete measures, such as tougher sanctions on the military junta.

In his speech at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the top US diplomat read aloud horrifying and tragic accounts of victims, who suffered rape, torture and gunshots to the head.

The Myanmar Armed Forces launched a military operation in 2017 that forced at least 730,000 Rohingya to leave their homes and flee to neighboring Bangladesh. In 2021, the country’s military seized power in a coup.

“Since the coup, we are seeing the Burmese military forces employ the same tactics. Only now is the military attacking anyone in Burma that it sees as opposing or harmful to its repressive command,” Blinken said. “For those who didn’t understand before the coup, the brutal violence employed by the military forces since February 2021 has made it clear that no one in Burma will be safe from atrocities while they are in power,” he added.