The Path Out of Genocide | Opinion

Newsweek
Tun Khin and Daniel P. Sullivan ,
Refugees International
On 4/6/22 

Five years since brutal attacks by Myanmar's military forced more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees to flee their homes, the United States has finally recognized those horrors as genocide. This determination is a historic and profound step toward justice for the Rohingya people. But those were words. Now we need action. This momentous assessment must serve as a catalyst to hold the Myanmar military accountable for its unceasing atrocities against people across Myanmar and to take urgent steps to end them.

Blinken declares Myanmar's military committed genocide against Rohingya

CNN  

Jennifer Hansler,
March 21, 2022

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference in Brussels, on March 4, 2022.

Washington (CNN)US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday he has determined that the military of Myanmar committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the country's minority Rohingya population in 2016 and 2017.

 
The formal declaration, announced at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, is a significant step and comes after the Trump administration declined to classify the atrocities -- including mass killings, rape, and torture -- as genocide or crimes against humanity. 

 

Blinken urges ASEAN to take ‘immediate action’ on Myanmar

Aljazeera

14 Jul 2021

In first meeting with ASEAN, US secretary of state calls for action on Myanmar and rejects China’s claims in South China Sea.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed US's commitment to ASEAN centrality during Wednesday's video conference [Jim Watson/Pool via Reuters]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed “deep concerns” about the military coup in Myanmar and called on Southeast Asian nations to take action to end violence and restore democracy in the country.

Blinken orders most State Department staff out of Myanmar

Washington Examiner

Washington Examiner

Joel Gehrke, Foreign Affairs Reporter 

March 30, 2021

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is ordering most State Department personnel in Myanmar to leave the country after more than 100 people were killed by the regime during protests against the military junta.

“The actions that we’ve seen by the Burmese military in terms of its attacks on civilians are reprehensible,” Blinken told reporters Tuesday, using the name for the nation that military officials discarded in a previous seizure of power. “Some people simply caught in the crossfire, others just expressing peacefully their views ... This follows a series of other attacks and, indeed, increasingly disturbing and even horrifying violence.”

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင်း ရိုဟင်ဂျာတို့အပေါ် Genocide ကျူးလွန်မှု ရှိ-မရှိ စိစစ်ရေးကြီးကြပ်ဖို့ ကန်ဝန်ကြီးသစ် Blinken သဘောတူ

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
28 ဇန်နဝါရီ၊ 2021

အမေရိကန် နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီးသစ် Antony Blinken က အထက်လွှတ်တော် ကြားနာ စစ်ဆေးပွဲမှာ တုံ့ပြန်

အမေရိကန် နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီးသစ် Antony Blinken က သူ့ကို ရာထူး ရာထူး ခန့်အပ် ဖို့ အတည်ပြုရေး အ ထက်လွှတ်တော် ကြားနာ စစ်ဆေးပွဲမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး အခုလို တုံ့ပြန် ဖြေကြားခဲ့ပါတယ်။