an hour agoHere are the crimes around the world that the United States knows as genocide
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)The U.S. today has known the massacres committed in Myanmar against Muslim populations known as Rohingya. From the Memorial Museum of the Holocaust, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has announced that his country recognises the crimes committed by the Myanmar Army to the Roingya minority community as genocide. The U.S. has it [...]
From the Memorial Museum of the Holocaust, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has announced that his country recognises the crimes committed by the Myanmar Army to the Roingya minority community as genocide.
The U.S. has practice deciding whether genocide has been committed somewhere and, in any case, must publicly declare its outcome.
Before that, the US recognised the Armenian genocide through two resolutions of Congress adopted by both chambers of the United States Congress and with presidential announcement in 2019. Recognition of the Armenian genocide became part of the U.S. politics.
Besides the Holocaust, the genocide of Nazis against Jews during World War II, the U.S. also recognises the genocide in California during the invasion of Mexico between 1846 and 1873.
The US State Department has officially recognised five other genocides: in Bosnia (1993), Rwanda (1994), Iraq (1995), Darfur (2004) and areas under I control. SIS (2016 and 2017)
