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07.17.2018

Washington Post | Letter: Call the crimes against the Rohingya what they are: Genocide

GJC’s Deputy Legal Director, Grant Shubin, published a letter to the editor in the Washington Post, in response to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ article “The Rohingya are victims of ethnic cleansing. The world has failed them.”

U.N. Secretary General António Guterres was right in his July 11 op-ed, “The chilling stories of the Rohingya,” to indict the international community for failing the Rohingya. His plea for more concerted international action could not be more timely or necessary. However, his appeal did not go as far as it should have. He failed to name the crimes against the Rohingya for what they are: genocide.

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