The United States declared Monday that the yearslong repression of the Rohingya minority by the Myanmar military is a genocide and a “crime against humanity.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. had come to this conclusion after a factual assessment determined there was a crime against humanity committed that was intended to “destroy Rohingya in whole or in part” during remarks at the Holocaust Museum.

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