115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 90 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Whereas on August 25, 2017, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation 
Army carried out attacks on Government positions in the 
state of Rakhine in Burma (‘‘Rakhine State’’); 
Whereas in recent decades the Rohingya people have lost, 
through systematic discrimination by Burmese national, 
state 
and 
local 
authorities, 
a 
range 
of 
civil
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elected officials to take action to prevent violence and se-
cure rights; 
Whereas the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State 
(‘‘Rakhine Commission’’) examined, beginning in 2016, 
the underlying tensions in Rakhine State and made a se-
ries of recommendations including a wide range of sug-
gestions and policy changes dealing with humanitarian 
aid, citizenship, reconciliation, and peace; 
Whereas the Rakhine Commission stated, ‘‘While Myanmar 
has every right to defend its own territory, a highly mili-
tarized response is unlikely to bring peace to the area. 
What is needed is a calibrated approach—one that com-
bines political, developmental, security and human rights 
responses to ensure that violence does not escalate and 
inter-communal tensions are kept under control.’’; 
Whereas the United Nations estimates that $434 million in 
humanitarian assistance will be needed to provide life- 
sustaining support to 1,200,000 people, both refugees 
and host communities, in the first few months of this cri-
sis; and 
Whereas the United States is providing an initial $32 million 
in humanitarian assistance to address the urgent needs 
of Rohingya fleeing violence from Rakhine State into 
Bangladesh, as well as the needs of internally displaced 
persons in Rakhine State and host communities in Ban-
gladesh: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) condemns the attacks against civilians by 
Burma’s military and security forces and calls on
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Burma’s Commander-in-Chief, Min Aung Hlaing, to 
immediately end all attacks against civilians in the 
state of Rakhine in Burma; 
(2) expresses deepest appreciation to the Gov-
ernment of Bangladesh for providing refuge to those 
fleeing violence and attacks; 
(3) condemns the attacks by the Arakan 
Rohingya Salvation Army and the violence in 
Rakhine and Rohingya communities, but warns that 
these attacks do not justify the unrestrained re-
sponse by Burmese military and security forces that 
has resulted in severe human rights violations, mur-
derous ethnic cleansing, and atrocities against civil-
ians; 
(4) calls on Burma’s Government, led by Aung 
San Suu Kyi, and the Burmese military and security 
forces to work constructively to implement the rec-
ommendations of the Advisory Commission on 
Rakhine State, including those relating to justice, 
reconciliation, humanitarian aid, and citizenship; 
(5) calls on Burma’s Government and its mili-
tary and security services to allow unimpeded hu-
manitarian access to refugees and internally dis-
placed persons;
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(6) urges support and access for the United 
Nations Fact Finding Mission to Burma; 
(7) calls on Burma’s military and Government 
to allow refugees to voluntarily return to Burma in 
a manner consistent with internationally recognized 
principles of human rights and refugee protection 
and to change laws and policies that have contrib-
uted to insecurity in the state of Rakhine; and 
(8) calls on the President of the United States 
to impose sanctions on members of the Burmese 
military and security forces who are responsible for 
human rights abuses. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 6, 
2017. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 90 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and 
calling for an end to the violence in and an im-
mediate restoration of humanitarian access to the 
state of Rakhine in Burma.