US calls Burma's ethnic cleansing "genocide"

The current butcher in Burma

Four years ago, the U.S. State Department began an investigation into the Burmese (now Myanmar) military’s brutal operation against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.

That happened the prior year, and it resulted in scores of deaths [state-sponsored murders] and hundreds of thousands of Rohingya being pushed into the neighboring Muslim country of Bangladesh.

The report, spanning thousands of pages, was finalized when Mike Pompeo was still U.S. secretary of state, and he ultimately opted to call the armed forces’ actions “ethnic cleansing,” a descriptive term not defined by international law: Why the U.S. is finally calling the genocide in Myanmar a ‘genocide’ (msn.com)