1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Allowing for the Safe Return of Rohingyas to Burma Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Since August 2017, the Burmese military, the Tatmadaw, has engaged in a brutal crackdown on the Rohingya population in the northern Rakhine state of Burma (formerly Myanmar). (2) Before the 2017 crisis, an estimated 1,000,000 Rohingya people lived in the Rakhine state. (3) As a result of the brutal crackdown of 2017, 740,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh and another 127,000 Rohingya fled to camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the central Rakhine state. (4) Bangladesh was already enduring a humanitarian crisis as a result of approximately 287,000 Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma during earlier crackdowns by the Burmese military in 2012 and 2016. (5) In March 2019, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated there were 909,000 registered Rohingya in Bangladeshi refugee camps. (6) On March 5, 2019, the United States Agency for International Development reported that the United States has contributed more than $494,000,000 to Bangladesh since August 2017 in order to help Bangladesh cope with the influx of Rohingya refugees. (7) The U.S. Secretary of State has called the Burmese security forces attacks on the Rohingya an ethnic cleansing but has yet to recognize them as a crime against humanity or genocide. (8) On December 13, 2018, the United States House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1091, which expressed the sense of the House that the atrocities committed against the Rohingya by the Burmese military and security forces since August 2017 constitute crimes against humanity and genocide and called upon the Secretary of State to review the available evidence and make a similar determination. (9) The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (the Mission) concluded in August 2018 and August 2019 reports that there is sufficient information to