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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§10251 Authorization to Provide Technical Assistance for Efforts Against Human Rights Abuses

Title 22 › CHAPTER 109 — BURMA UNIFIED THROUGH RIGOROUS MILITARY ACCOUNTABILITY › SUBCHAPTER IV — EFFORTS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES › § 10251

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of State may help civilian and international groups investigate and document war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Burma. That help can include finding suspects, collecting and protecting evidence, doing criminal investigations, and supporting other countries’ or UN investigations (for example, the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar). The Secretary may also help set up and run transitional justice bodies, including a hybrid tribunal to prosecute suspects, and must consider findings in the report under section 5941.

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Title 22, §10251

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In general
The Secretary of State is authorized to provide assistance to support appropriate civilian or international entities that—
(1)identify suspected perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Burma;
(2)collect, document, and protect evidence of crimes in Burma and preserving the chain of custody for such evidence;
(3)conduct criminal investigations of such crimes; and
(4)support investigations related to Burma conducted by other countries, and by entities mandated by the United Nations, such as the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar.
(b)Authorization for transitional justice mechanisms
The Secretary of State, taking into account any relevant findings in the report submitted under section 5941, is authorized to provide support for the establishment and operation of transitional justice mechanisms, including a hybrid tribunal, to prosecute individuals suspected of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide in Burma.

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section 5941, referred to in subsec. (b), is unidentifiable in the original. Although Pub. L. 117–263 does contain a section 5941, that section is outside the BURMA Act of 2022, which comprises this chapter, and relates to the submission of a report by the Secretary of Agriculture on wholesale produce markets. Prior versions of the Act included a section requiring a report containing a study of the feasibility and desirability of a transitional justice mechanism for Burma, but that section did not appear in the version of the Act enacted by Pub. L. 117–263.

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22 U.S.C. § 10251

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110