Pompeo Decries ‘Abhorrent Ethnic Cleansing’ in Burma on Anniversary

Pompeo Decries ‘Abhorrent Ethnic Cleansing’ in Burma on Anniversary
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Singapore Aug. 4, 2018. Reuters/Edgar Su
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The United States will continue to hold accountable those responsible for what he described as the “abhorrent ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya in Burma, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday.

Pompeo’s statement came on the one year anniversary of the conflict in western Burma’s Rakhine state that drove more than 700,000 Rohingya from their homes into neighboring Bangladesh.