For too many years, human rights advocates have wasted precious time and valuable resources pressuring the U.N. Security Council to respond to mass atrocity crimes in Myanmar. I know because I’m one of them.

In September 2017, I flew from the Myanmar-Bangladesh border to New York City to brief the body on an unfolding genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar, thoroughly documented by the organization I represent, as well as by many others. The military was razing hundreds of villages and murdering men, women and children.

The Security Council failed to protect the people of Myanmar then, and now it’s failing again.…  Seguir leyendo »