Joe Crowley: “I thank my friend and colleague from New York for yielding me this time. I thank the chair, as well, for his work on…”

“I thank my friend and colleague from New York for yielding me this time. I thank the chair, as well, for his work on this effort. I thank my friend and colleague from Ohio (Mr. Chabot) for his work on putting this resolution together. I know Mr. Levin, Ms. McCollum, and others, have also expressed a tremendous interest in this issue, and I am very pleased and happy about that. In late August, after attacks on outposts, Burma's military and security forces launched a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in Burma. The response has been grossly disproportionate. The attacks by the military against the Rohingya civilians have been systematic, organized, and ruthless. Amnesty International says: The Myanmar military has killed hundreds of Rohingya women, men, and children, including babies; raped women and girls; and carried out targeted burning of entire villages. And that is just what we know of. The authorities have terrorized the Rohingya people so cruelly that more than 600,000 Rohingya people have fled Burma to neighboring Bangladesh. Even before the attacks, the Rohingya were often effectively denied access to proper healthcare and education, as the chairman has indicated, many just barely getting by. But the most disturbing thing of all, at least so far, there is no light at the end of this tunnel.…”