{"id":2257,"date":"2022-03-20T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-statement-on-rohingya-genocide-designation\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:05:12","slug":"merkley-statement-on-rohingya-genocide-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-rohingya-genocide-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaraci\u00f3n de Merkley sobre la designaci\u00f3n de genocidio rohingya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC - El senador estadounidense de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, miembro del Comit\u00e9 de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado de EE. UU. y una voz destacada en la crisis de los rohingya, emiti\u00f3 la siguiente declaraci\u00f3n despu\u00e9s de los informes de que el Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. tomar\u00e1 una determinaci\u00f3n formal de que el ej\u00e9rcito birmano ha sido llevar a cabo un genocidio contra el pueblo rohingya:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAplaudo a la administraci\u00f3n de Biden por reconocer finalmente las atrocidades cometidas contra los rohingya como genocidio. Si bien esta determinaci\u00f3n es necesaria desde hace mucho tiempo, es un paso poderoso y de importancia cr\u00edtica para hacer que este brutal r\u00e9gimen rinda cuentas. Dichos procesos deben llevarse a cabo siempre de manera objetiva, consistente y de manera que trascienda las consideraciones geopol\u00edticas. Hoy, Estados Unidos ha demostrado que est\u00e1 en el lado correcto de la historia y apoya al pueblo de Birmania, quienes, en los a\u00f1os transcurridos desde el genocidio, se han convertido en v\u00edctimas de la brutalidad de la junta militar.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNunca olvidar\u00e9 las dolorosas historias que escuch\u00e9 de miembros de la comunidad rohingya cuando viaj\u00e9 a Birmania y Bangladesh en 2017: historias de violencia indescriptible y cr\u00edmenes horribles contra la humanidad. Sal\u00ed de ese viaje convencido de que hab\u00eda pruebas abrumadoras de que la junta birmana hab\u00eda cometido genocidio y me compromet\u00ed a garantizar que Estados Unidos lo reconociera como tal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstados Unidos nunca debe permanecer en silencio ante los graves abusos de los derechos humanos, y debemos dejar en claro que cuando un gobierno persigue sistem\u00e1ticamente a su pueblo y le roba sus derechos humanos b\u00e1sicos, habr\u00e1 consecuencias. Estados Unidos ha impuesto leg\u00edtimamente numerosas sanciones al r\u00e9gimen birmano y sus l\u00edderes y, a ra\u00edz de esta determinaci\u00f3n, debemos seguir trabajando para imponer costos claros y elevados por estas atrocidades y cortar las regal\u00edas de petr\u00f3leo y gas. Estados Unidos debe liderar al mundo para dejar en claro que nunca se permitir\u00e1 que atrocidades como estas pasen desapercibidas, sin importar d\u00f3nde ocurran\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>En 2017, Merkley&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/news\/press-releases\/merkley-led-congressional-delegation-returning-from-burma-and-bangladesh-calls-on-burma-to-repatriate-rohingya-and-resolve-humanitarian-crisis\/\">encabez\u00f3 la primera delegaci\u00f3n del Congreso a Birmania y Bangladesh<\/a>&nbsp;para investigar el genocidio rohingya.<\/p>\n<p>Merkley ha liderado repetidamente los llamados a una determinaci\u00f3n de genocidio durante las administraciones de Trump y Biden, que incluyen:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>En un discurso en el pleno del Senado el 1 de febrero de 2022;<\/li>\n<li>en un <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/news\/press-releases\/merkley-bipartisan-colleagues-urge-biden-administration-to-issue-crucial-rohingya-genocide-determination-2021\/\">carta al Secretario de Estado Antony Blinken<\/a> en agosto de 2021;<\/li>\n<li>en un <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/news\/press-releases\/merkley-young-durbin-lead-senate-resolution-condemning-coup-in-burma-laying-out-coordinated-international-response-to-rohingya-genocide-2021\/\">resoluci\u00f3n bipartidista del Senado<\/a> en marzo de 2021;<\/li>\n<li>en un <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/news\/press-releases\/merkley-bipartisan-colleagues-call-on-trump-administration-to-condemn-rohingya-genocide-provide-additional-support-2020\/\">carta al secretario de Estado Mike Pompeo<\/a> en agosto de 2020;<\/li>\n<li>en un <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/news\/press-releases\/senators-markey-rubio-cardin-collins-and-merkley-introduce-bipartisan-resolution-condemning-atrocities-against-rohingya-in-burma\/\">resoluci\u00f3n bipartidista del Senado<\/a> en diciembre de 2018;<\/li>\n<li>en un <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/news\/press-releases\/senators-call-on-pompeo-to-address-ethnic-cleansing-in-burma\/\">carta al secretario de Estado Mike Pompeo<\/a> en agosto de 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley&mdash;a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a leading voice on the Rohingya crisis&mdash;issued the following statement after reports that the U.S. State Department will make a formal determination that the Burmese military has been carrying out a genocide against the Rohingya people: &ldquo;I applaud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley Statement on Rohingya Genocide Designation - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-rohingya-genocide-designation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Statement on Rohingya Genocide Designation - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; 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