Biden administration formally determines Myanmar's military committed genocide

[AZProgressive]

(CNN) The Biden administration has formally determined that Myanmar's military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya, a US official told CNN on Sunday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will publicly announce the determination, which human rights groups have been advocating for years, at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, on Monday.

Reuters first reported on the administration's recognition of genocide.

Until now, the US had stopped short of declaring the atrocities -- including mass killings and rape -- committed in 2017 against the Muslim minority Rohingya population a genocide. The violence forced nearly a million people to flee, and the United Nations recommended that top military officials face genocide charges.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/20/politics/biden-administration-myanmar-military-genocide/index.html

[Lithos]

1. The timing is interesting

Probably has a lot to do with what is going on in the Ukraine at the moment.

[moondust]

2. Barbarians all over the damn place.

Some with nuclear weapons.