Burma’s Junta Committed Genocide Against Rohingya, US Declares

Rohingya refugee Dildar Begum, 30, recovers from her wounds along side her daughter Nurkalima, 10, at the Sadar city hospital on Sept. 15, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

The United States has formally determined that the Burmese military committed genocide against the Rohingya in a “widespread and systematic” manner, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday.

Blinken said in a speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that “beyond the Holocaust, the United States has concluded that genocide was committed seven times.”