87R21037 BPG-D     By: Reynolds H.R. No. 1329       R E S O L U T I O N          WHEREAS, Myanmar state forces killed almost 24,000 members of   the country's Rohingya Muslim minority between 2017 and 2020,   according to a report compiled by the Ontario International   Development Agency; and          WHEREAS, Rohingya Muslims have lived in Myanmar for   centuries, alongside a Buddhist majority and other, smaller ethnic   minorities, but following a military coup in 1962, the Rohingya   were demonized by a regime seeking scapegoats for its failures;   enacting a series of harsh laws, the military stripped them of   citizenship and practiced systematic oppression, claiming they   were illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, intent upon destroying   Buddhist heritage; and          WHEREAS, Isolated politically and economically, military   leaders began to adopt some trappings of representative government;   a new constitution was adopted in 2008, but the persecution of the   Rohingya escalated, and authorities launched an ethnic cleansing   campaign, interning them in squalid open-air detention camps; and          WHEREAS, In a 2015 election, the party led by Nobel   Prize-winning champion of democracy Aung San Suu Kyi won a   landslide victory; she became the de facto civilian leader, but   deferred to the military as the state continued to persecute the   Rohingya; after an attack by a rebel group in 2017, the military   descended upon Rohingya villages with helicopter gunships;   soldiers burned houses to the ground and committed murder and gang   rapes in a brutal campaign with "genocidal intent," according to a   United Nations human rights report; more than 750,000 desperate   Rohingya, mostly women and children, were driven over the border   into Bangladesh, according to Amnesty International; and          WHEREAS, Before being ousted by a military coup in February   2021, Aung San Suu Kyi ignored pleas from the international   community to speak out or intervene, dismissing evidence of   atrocities as "fake news" and claiming the military was simply   fighting terrorism; and          WHEREAS, The Rohingya have suffered immensely for decades,   and while hundreds of thousands languish in crowded refugee camps   in Bangladesh, the fate of those remaining in Myanmar is more   precarious than ever under an emboldened military determined to   crush all opposition; now, therefore, be it          RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 87th Texas   Legislature hereby condemn the genocide perpetrated against the   Rohingya people by the military government of Myanmar.