enforced by the Rakhine State government and the military and security forces, there has been little progress made since that time and limited ability for the international community to meaningfully support, verify, or evaluate the Government of Burma’s efforts. There are also credible reports of Burmese military and security forces bulldozing villages where violence occurred, thus destroying physical evidence of what may have occurred there. (7) Human rights organizations have reported and documented a campaign of violence perpetrated by the security forces of Burma, which indiscriminately fired on and killed civilians, raped women and girls, and arbitrarily arrested Rohingya men without any cause or charges. Satellite images obtained by Amnesty International reveal that, out of the approximately 470 villages in northern Rakhine State, nearly 300 were partially or completely destroyed by fire since August 25, 2017, most of which were completely or partially populated by Rohingya Muslims. (8) On October 10, 2017, at a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Mark Storella testified that of the $434,000,000 required by the United Nations for emergency response in the first 6 months of this crisis, [i]n fiscal year 2017, the United States contributed nearly $104 million in assistance to the displaced populations in Burma for refugees from Burma throughout the region . (9) The United Nations Joint Response Plan to fund assistance to Rohingya refugees and the host community in Bangladesh through the end of 2018 requires almost $1,000,000,000 in assistance. (10) On November 22, 2017, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated that, After careful and through analysis of available facts, it is clear that the situation in northern Rakhine state constitutes ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. Those responsible for these atrocities must be held accountable . He also said the violence has a number of characteristics of certainly