WASHINGTON, March 21, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken 
formally declared Monday that the Myanmar military's attacks on the Rohingya 
in 2016 and 2017 was "genocide", saying there was "clear intent" to destroy 
the Muslim minority.

"I have determined that members of the Burmese military committed genocide 
and crimes against humanity against Rohingya," Blinken said.

The evidence shows "a clear intent behind these mass atrocities -- the intent 
to destroy Rohingya, in whole or in part," he said at the US Holocaust 
Memorial Museum.