Rohingya refugees welcome US decision to call Myanmar atrocities a genocide

Refugees very happy' with declaration, while experts say concrete steps' must follow

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have welcomed the announcement by the US that it considers the violent repression of their largely Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar a genocide.

We are very happy on the declaration of the genocide; many many thanks," said 60-year-old Sala Uddin, who lives at Kutupalong camp, one of the many in Cox's Bazar district that are now home to about 1 million Rohingya.