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 one million 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 the Department of State has, since 1999, 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 the most recent State Department Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2016 recognized abuses and restrictions on members of the Rohingya population among the leading human rights problems in Burma; Whereas Aung San Suu Kyi spent fifteen years under house arrest for her peaceful advocacy of democracy in Burma, and during those years Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Sakharov human rights prize from the European Parliament, the Nobel Peace Prize, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal for her tireless struggle for freedom and human rights