Both Chairman Royce and I believe that what is occurring in Burma's Rakhine State is ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the military and a direct failure of the Burmese Government to protect its people.
Engel describes the Rohingya crisis as ethnic cleansing and criticizes the Burmese government.
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