U.S. Won't Label Atrocities Against Rohingya 'Genocide'
A much anticipated report by the U.S. State Department blames Myanmar's security forces for violence against Rohingya Muslims but does not call the mass killing a genocide.
Updated at 9:23 p.m. ET
The U.S. has issued a report condemning the violent crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims by the Myanmar military as "extreme, large-scale, widespread." But the report, issued by the State Department on Monday, notably did not label the mass killings a genocide.
That distinction is an important legal one governing how and whether the International Criminal Court may act in these cases.
"We rarely make atrocity determinations," a State Department
