; Whereas, on November 22, 2017, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated, After a careful and thorough analysis of available facts, it is clear that the situation in northern Rakhine State constitutes ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. ; Whereas the Department of the Treasury announced sanctions on five Tatmadaw officers and two Tatmadaw units for human rights abuses in Rakhine, Kachin, and Shan States; Whereas, on August 24, 2018, the United Nations International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar released a preliminary report stating that, The Mission concluded … that there is sufficient information to warrant the investigation and prosecution of senior officials in the Tatmadaw chain of command, so that a competent court can determine their liability for genocide in relation to the situation in Rakhine State. ; Whereas, on August 25, 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, A year ago, following deadly militant attacks, security forces responded by launching abhorrent ethnic cleansing of ethnic Rohingya in Burma , and continued The U.S. will continue to hold those responsible accountable. The military must respect human rights for Burma’s democracy to succeed. ; and Whereas, on September 24, 2018, the Department of State released a report entitled Documentation of Atrocities in Northern Rakhine State that stated the military targeted civilians indiscriminately and often with extreme brutality and that the violence in northern Rakhine State was extreme, large-scale, widespread and seemingly geared toward both terrorizing the population and driving gout the Rohingya residents and that the scope and scale of the military’s operations indicate that they were well-planned and coordinated : Now, therefore, be it