(ERLC) The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) lead a multi-faith letter calling for the U.S. Department of State to designate the continued brutal oppression of the Rohingya as a genocide.
For decades, the Burmese government has repeatedly violated the human rights of ethnic minority groups including the Chin, Kachin, Karen, Rakhine, Rohingya, and Shan, by suppressing religious freedom, arbitrarily arresting and torturing civilians, and attacking innocent women and children. The Rohingya specifically have faced restriction of citizenship, revoking of temporary registration cards, and have been targeted with ethnic cleansing.