Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm not really sure what efforts human rights groups have made to go in there. You can, for example, go to some of these areas and camps only if you get governmental permission, which takes some time and some connections. Some journalists can get in. It's a hit-and-miss situation

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, I think—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No, I don't think you are. I fully agree with that. In terms of the discussion of genocide, different people have posited that, yes, the seeds of genocide are there. Either way, if you consider it genocide or you don't consider it genocide, it is, as you say, definitely one of

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. I've been in contact with Rohingya people and issues since 1992, when the Burmese military mounted a major pogrom against them that drove 300,000 refugees into Bangladesh, but today I want to talk mainly about my visit to Sittwe, capital of Arakan State, just over two

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I want to clarify that most of the work of these groups is in Burma. Often, when people refer to inside Burma, they mean central Burma, as opposed to the ethnic states, but a lot of groups will have offices both in the ethnic states of Burma and Thailand as a fallback position. T

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think things like the interfaith marriage law and those other laws are consistent with long-standing government tactics in Burma that involve trying to divide groups and pit them against each other so that they won't oppose the government, and also trying to stir up nationalism