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

Published November 22, 2017 4:45pm ET



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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