Speak Out Against the Rohingya Genocide

Through an organized campaign of rape, torture and murder, and the destruction of entire villages, the Burmese armed forces are trying to annihilate the Rohingya people of Burma—simply because of their ethnic and religious identity. As Jews and global citizens, we can’t look the other way in the face of genocide. We know from our own history of oppression that silence is unacceptable. We must act for justice.

Representatives Engel and Chabot just introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives called the Burma United through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of 2019 (the BURMA Act, H.R. 3190), a crucial piece of legislation that will help the Rohingya people in this desperate time. The bill authorizes humanitarian assistance for refugees, holds Burmese military officials accountable for their crimes via economic sanctions and visa denials, and calls for international justice for the Rohingya people, and builds on the momentum from the Senate’s legislation introduced in April.

Speak out now! Please email your Representative today, asking them to stand with the Rohingya people by supporting this critical bill. We must stand up as Jews to stop this genocide unfolding in our midst.

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Subject Support the H.R. 3190, the BURMA Act

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I am writing to ask you to co-sponsor H.R. 3190, the Burma United through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of 2019 (the BURMA Act), introduced June 11, 2019 by Representatives Engel and Chabot. If you have already co-sponsored this bill, I send you my sincerest thanks. Please keep fighting for the Rohingya people.

The Burmese military has murdered countless civilians, burnt villages to the ground, and forced more than 720,000 Rohingya people to flee from their homes to squalid refugee camps, simply because of their ethnic and religious identity.

As an American Jew, I cannot remain silent in the face of this genocide. The persecution and genocide that the Jewish community has faced throughout history compels me to speak out against this attempt to annihilate the Rohingya people.

That's why I ask you to co-sponsor H.R. 3190, which would help the Rohingya people in this desperate time by:

* Authorizing desperately needed humanitarian assistance for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees;
* Holding Burmese military officials accountable for their crimes through economic sanctions and visa denials; and
* Calling for pathways to justice for the Rohingya people, who have faced unspeakable human rights violations.

As a constituent, and a supporter of American Jewish World Service, I urge you to co-sponsor and support the BURMA Act, and ask that you do what you can to advance the passage of the bill and these key steps in supporting the Rohingya people. The lives and freedom of the surviving Rohingya families and other ethnic minorities depend on it.

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