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Excerpt: "Sadly, we are seeing now this same lack of effective diplomacy in Myanmar, formerly Burma, where since last summer 680,000 Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee a systematic military campaign of killings, arson, rape and other mass atrocities amounting to ethnic cleansing."

Hamida, 22, (center), and her son Mohammed, aged one, wait to receive food aid along with hundreds of other Rohingya refugees at Kutupalong Refugee Camp, in Bangladesh. (photo: Andrew McConnell/UNHCR)
Hamida, 22, (center), and her son Mohammed, aged one, wait to receive food aid along with hundreds of other Rohingya refugees at Kutupalong Refugee Camp, in Bangladesh. (photo: Andrew McConnell/UNHCR)


America Should Lead in Saving the Rohingya

By John McCain and Angelina Jolie, The New York Times

09 March 18

 

round the world, there is profound concern that America is giving up the mantle of global leadership. Our steady retreat over the past decade has contributed to a wide array of complex global challenges — a dangerous erosion of the rule of law, gross human rights violations and the decline of the rules-based international order that was designed in the aftermath of two world wars to prevent conflict and deter mass atrocities.

We’ve seen this unfold in Syria, where the United States and the international community have shamefully failed to address brutal violence that has engulfed the country for seven years, led to hundreds of thousands dead and contributed to the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II.

And sadly, we are seeing now this same lack of effective diplomacy in Myanmar, formerly Burma, where since last summer 680,000 Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee a systematic military campaign of killings, arson, rape and other mass atrocities amounting to ethnic cleansing.


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