Condemning the mass atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Burma and urging accountability for the Burmese military.

condemns the atrocities and displacement inflicted on Burma’s Rohingya population by the Burmese military and security forces since August 2017;

calls on the Secretary of State, based on credible evidence, to make a formal determination on whether the crimes committed since August 2017, amount to genocide;

commends the role of the Government of Bangladesh in receiving Rohingya refugees to date and urges the Government of Bangladesh to continue allowing the full participation of UNHCR and human rights organization in accessing refugee camps;

calls upon Facebook and other social media platforms to take the appropriate steps to guard against the dissemination of hate speech exploiting ethnic divisions in Burma;

calls on the Government of Burma to immediately release Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo;

urges the President to impose additional sanctions on senior members of Burma’s military and security forces, including Burmese military owned companies and entities, who are responsible for genocide and human rights abuses against the Rohingya; and

calls upon the President to maintain the status of the United States as a top international donor to the humanitarian response in Burma and Bangladesh and to submit a budget request for fiscal year 2020 that reflects that longstanding United States commitment.