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On the recordOctober 4, 2017
When 800,000 people of a particular ethnic background are living in a neighboring country because they have been forcibly removed from their villages, I would call that ethnic cleansing, you know, pretty clear and simple.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly emphasizes the situation of Rohingya refugees as ethnic cleansing.

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