; Whereas in her 2012 Nobel lecture, Aung San Suu Kyi made an impassioned appeal to the world not to forget those who are suffering hunger, disease, displacement, joblessness, poverty, injustice, discrimination, prejudice, bigotry and war … continuing that wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages ; Whereas in a landmark election held in November 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in the first national vote since Burma’s nominal transition to civilian authority, after which Aung San Suu Kyi was named State Counsellor, a role created for her that made her the country’s de facto leader; Whereas in August 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi helped establish the high-level Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, headed by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in order to address the mistreatment of the Rohingya; Whereas in October 2016, attacks on border police outposts led to reports of horrific human rights abuses against the Rohingya in a brutal military crackdown; Whereas in December 2016, a letter signed by 23 international activists, including more than a dozen fellow Nobel laureates, to the United Nations Security Council called out Aung San Suu Kyi for her silence on the treatment of the Rohingya; Whereas in February 2017, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report, finding that crimes against the Rohingya seem to have been widespread as well as systematic, indicating the very likely commission of crimes against humanity ; Whereas in March 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution creating a Fact-Finding Mission to Myanmar to investigate allegations of human rights abuses against the Rohingya and issue a report by the following year