Whereas the Rohingya are one of Burma’s many ethnic minorities that have lived under military dictatorship for most of the last few decades; Whereas approximately 1,000,000 Rohingya live predominantly in Burma’s Rakhine State, where they have faced ongoing repression under the Burmese military, including the revocation of their citizenship, killings, and mass rape; Whereas there is historical animosity between the majority Buddhist population and the minority Rohingya, with many in the Buddhist majority seeing the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from across the border in Bangladesh despite generational roots; Whereas since 1999, the Department of State has regularly expressed concern over legal, economic, and social discrimination against Burma’s Rohingya population; Whereas an outbreak of communal violence in the Rakhine State in 2012 saw more than 100,000 displaced, and tens of thousands of Rohingya forced into squalid camps where travel was, and continues to be, restricted; Whereas the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Burma reported a long history of discrimination and persecution against the Rohingya ; Whereas Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest for her peaceful advocacy of democracy in Burma, and during those years she was awarded the Sakharov human rights prize from the European Parliament, the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal for her tireless struggle for democracy and human rights; Whereas in her 2012 Nobel lecture Aung San Suu Kyi made an impassioned appeal to the world— (1) not to forget those who are suffering hunger, disease, displacement, joblessness, poverty, injustice, discrimination, prejudice, bigotry and war; and (2) that wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages