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Decrying ‘ethnic cleansing,’ Tillerson leads on the Rohingya crisis

By Tom Rogan
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Decrying ‘ethnic cleansing,’ Tillerson leads on the Rohingya crisis

The State Department has rightly recognized that the Rohingya people of Myanmar are victims of ethnic cleansing.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared, “After a careful and thorough analysis of available facts, it is clear that the situation in northern Rakhine state constitutes ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.”

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