Joint Press Statement
For Immediate Release
Date: 03/01/2019
We, the following US based Rohingya Organizations would like to appeal the
US Administration, our Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo that we
commend and highly appreciate the Department's efforts under your
leadership mentioning the atrocities against the Rohingya as crimes and
ethnic cleansing, however, we would humbly urge you to take the necessary
next step of making a formal determination regarding these crimes on the
basis of clear evidence and detail reports of the atrocities by the United
Nations, Congress, international NGOs and the State Department's August
2018 summary report, "Documentation of Atrocities in Northern Arakan
State."
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Public International Law and Policy
Group (PILPG), the UN Fact Finding Mission, many international NGOs and the
various independent legal experts of Genocide Advocates concluded that there
are reasonable grounds to believe that genocide, crimes against humanity, and
war crimes were committed against the Rohingya people of Arakan state,
Burma (Myanmar).
Moreover, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H. Resolution 1091 by a
margin of 394-1 in December 2018 calling these crimes against the Rohingyas
as genocide and crimes against humanity based on the available evidence
under international law. The United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission
on Myanmar report released on September 12, 2018 found that Burmese
military and security forces systematically and brutally targeted the Rohingya
community in the 2017 "clearance operations," killing thousands of innocents
and displacing more than 700,000 people, which constitutes crimes against
humanity and Genocide.
We believe that making a formal determination acknowledging the full extent of
these crimes is a critical step toward accountability for the perpetrators of these
crimes and justice for the Rohingya victims of Genocide.
We look forward your kind attention to our fervent appeal and do hope that
justice can be achieved only by the US Government.
Meanwhile, we also warmly welcome the Press Release issued on February
27, 2019 by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Representative
Eliot L. Engel who led a bipartisan group of members in calling on the US
Administration to formally designate the Burmese military atrocities against the
Rohingya people as genocide.
This Statement is jointly issued by the following organizations-
(1) Arakan Rohingya Union Reformist Group (ARU-RG)
(2) Los Angeles Rohingya Association (LARA)
(3) Rohingya American Society (RAS)
(4) Rohingya Culture Center of Chicago (RCC)
(5) Rohingya Al-Falah Community of Chicago (RACC)
(6) Rohingya Education and Community Center of Georgia (RECC)
(7) Rohingya Society for Greater Nashua (RSGN)
(8) Rohingya Society of Greater Houston (RSGH)
(9) Rohingya Student Union (RSU - USA)
(10) World Rohingya Organization (WRO - USA)
For further information, please contact: -
Shaukhat (aka) MSK Jilani (Tel: 414 736 4273), Email: shaukhat@gmail.com
Nasir Zakaria (Tel: 872 203 4921), Email: nasir_zakaria@yahoo.com
Mohiuddin Yusof (Tel: 716 544 1803), wro.usa@gmail.com
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