Islamic Human Rights Commission
8 April 2022
8 April 2022
Summary
The United States has officially recognised the persecution of the Rohingya as a genocide.
IHRC requests campaigners to write to the UK foreign minister Liz Truss, demanding that the UK formally recognises the Rohingya genocide too.
The United States has officially recognised the persecution of the Rohingya as a genocide. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said at a holocaust memorial event last month:
“Today marks the eighth, because I’ve determined that members of the Burmese military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against Rohingya,”
“Today marks the eighth, because I’ve determined that members of the Burmese military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against Rohingya,”
In 2018 a UN fact finding mission released a report calling for call for the investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and his top military leaders for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
