WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are preparing a recommendation for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to declare that "ethnic cleansing" is occurring against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims. That assessment would raise pressure on the Trump administration and U.S. lawmakers to consider new sanctions on a country that had been lauded for its democratic
US May Finally Acknowledge Myanmar’s Ethnic Cleansing Of Rohingya
Calls for a U.S. determination of “ethnic cleansing” have intensified, as the United Nations and leading Western governments have already used the term.