Thomas H. Andrews: “Yes. There have been. In fact, it was only until the United States took the lead in exerting diplomatic and economic…”

We did not declare it a genocide and we did not immediately lead the world in action and response.

We need to have a very aggressive, strong, principled stand and not just words but action that can mobilize the region and the world with us.

Junta forces have slaughtered thousands of civilians, bombed and burned villages, and displaced millions of people.

The people of Burma are rising up from all walks of life, every ethnic and religious background, and from every corner of the nation as a diverse yet powerfully unified whole.