Biden has made fostering democracy and protecting human rights pillars of his foreign policy, and in April went so far as to declare century-old atrocities committed against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide.Д«ut he has stopped short of a genocide designation on behalf of the Rohingya because of a continuing internal debate that has left the administration torn over what impact it would have and how forcefully the United States should be engaged in the protracted conflict between the Tatmadaw and MyanmarвЂ™s citizens, according to three people familiar with the discussions.Дiplomats who work on human rights issues have pushed for a genocide declaration. The 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation filed legal action against Myanmar in 2019, accusing it of violating the U.N.вЂ™s Genocide Convention. Some American allies - including Canada, France and Turkey - have already declared the monthslong rampage in 2017 against the Rohingya as genocide. He said the State Department was working with the United Nations вЂњto try to collect and preserve evidence that will be very importantвЂќ to conclude if genocide was committed. Blinken described a вЂњvery much actively ongoingвЂќ review, he would not predict when it might be resolved. Markey asked when the State Department would decide whether the atrocities amounted to genocide, and though Mr. Blinken at a Senate hearing in early June. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, told Secretary of State Antony J. вЂњThe same military leaders who orchestrated atrocities against the Rohingya have seized power in a violent coup against the elected government,вЂќ Senator Edward J. That was not enough to convince the State Department during the Trump administration that the United States should officially proclaim the Rohingya to be victims of genocide and crimes against humanity.Д«ut now that the military, the Tatmadaw, has overthrown MyanmarвЂ™s civilian government, current and former American officials and human rights activists are demanding that President Biden do what the Trump administration would not: Formally hold the countryвЂ™s military accountable for genocide and compel international protection of the Rohingya. The report documented survivorsвЂ™ accounts of gang rapes, crucifixions, mutilations, of children being burned or drowned and of families locked inside their blazing homes as MyanmarвЂ™s military sought to exterminate them. WASHINGTON - Three years ago, American investigators produced a 15,000-page analysis of atrocities committed in 2017 against the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority group in Myanmar.

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