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On the recordSeptember 25, 2018
When we talk about acts of genocide or crimes against humanity or decide what we call it, why would the U.S. State Department be reluctant, based on all the available evidence, to upgrade its current designation of ethnic cleansing to at least crimes against humanity, if not genocide?
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Questioning the State Department's reluctance to classify actions in Myanmar as genocide.

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