The UN refugee agency will provide Rohingya language translators and counselling to determine if they were from the group of 190 Rohingya who were reported to be drifting in a small boat in the Andaman Sea for a month.
The group of 110 making the hazardous month-long journey included women and children.
Actors linked to military and radical Buddhist nationalist groups flooded Facebook with anti-Muslim content prior to large-scale massacres, Amnesty International says, demanding Facebook meet Rohingya's demands for remediation.
War crimes investigators have been working secretly to compile evidence they hope can be used to secure convictions in an international criminal court.
The rights group says that 135,000 Rohingya and Kaman Muslims have been detained arbitrarily and indefinitely in the Rakhine State camps for ten years.
Around 700,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since the toppling of the government last year, adding to an estimated 346,000 people already displaced before the coup.
The evidence shows "a clear intent behind these mass atrocities - the intent to destroy Rohingya, in whole or in part," Blinken said.
114 refugees, including 35 children, were "weak from hunger and dehydration after a long and severe voyage at sea."
The toppled leader, who faced criticism from rights groups for her involvement in the alleged Rohingya genocide, is now under trial by the same generals she defended in The Hague.
Stateless Rohingya refugees who have been living in subhuman conditions in Bangladesh are now worried about the future status of over 100,000 newborns.
More than 3,000 Rohingya-run shops have been bulldozed by Bangladeshi authorities since last month, the country's deputy refugee commissioner Shamsud Douza has confirmed.
Broken-down wooden boat carrying 120 refugees was towed by a navy ship to North Aceh sea port, officials say.
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