US Secretary of State Antony Blinken - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:04:09 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg US Secretary of State Antony Blinken - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 US says Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/03/24/us-says-myanmar-committed-genocide-against-rohingya/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 06:55:21 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=145140 The United States has determined that the violence against the Rohingya minority committed by Myanmar's military amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity. Hundreds of thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar since 2017 after a military crackdown. The action by the military is now the subject of a genocide case Read more

US says Myanmar committed genocide against Rohingya... Read more]]> The United States has determined that the violence against the Rohingya minority committed by Myanmar's military amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity.

Hundreds of thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar since 2017 after a military crackdown. The action by the military is now the subject of a genocide case at the United Nations' highest court in The Hague.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is today due to officially announce the decision to designate that crackdown a genocide in remarks at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, where an exhibit on "Burma's Path to Genocide" — using a former name for the country — is on display.

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