In a statement on Saturday, Myanmar’s President Win Myint congratulated the “ethnic brothers and sisters” on the 44th anniversary of the Rakhine National Day and falsely claimed that “2018 has been an auspicious year,” Press TV reports. On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring that Myanmar’s military has carried out genocide against Rohingya Muslims — a stance the Trump administration has refused to take. Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said on November that they would “rather die” than go back to Burma under current conditions, as it was revealed that plans to repatriate them have been stalled until next year.