Senators Call for Action to Halt Myanmar Slaughter

PALONG KHALI, BANGLADESH – OCTOBER 16: An elderly man who collapsed is carried to a medical facility as thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar sit along a muddy rice field after crossing the border near Palang Khali, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Around 536,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since Aug. 25, Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August during the outbreak of violence in Rakhine state causing a humanitarian crisis in the region with continued challenges for aid agencies. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

The United States must act to prevent further ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority group in Myanmar and hold perpetrators accountable by international sanction, lawmakers said Tuesday.

“Make no mistake, atrocities are taking place in Burma. We have perpetrators who expect impunity and there’s no reason to doubt that that may in fact occur. This is in fact ethnic cleansing,” said Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Trump administration response to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.

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