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BHRN welcomes a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it can exercise jurisdiction to investigate the deportation and force transfer of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people from Burma to Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.
“We support this move by the ICC. We call on international actors to back this investigation and to demand the prosecution of Burma’s generals,” said BHRN Executive Director Kyaw Win. “We must continue to advocate for justice not only in the case of the expulsion of the Rohingya, but also for the wide range of atrocities that the Tatmadaw has committed against so many communities in Burma.”
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3 September 2018, London, UK – The conviction of two Reuters journalists by a Yangon court signals another failure by the National League for Democracy administration to protect human rights and press freedom in Burma, and stands in stark contrast to the impunity enjoyed by the military for the crimes that these reporters exposed.
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday for violating the Official Secrets Act in their reporting of a 2017 massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State. They have been held in the notorious Insein Prison since December of last year.
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The Burma Human Rights Network welcome the findings of the UN independent fact-finding mission into human rights abuses in Burma and calls on the United Kingdom and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to support a referral of Burmese military figures involved in abuses to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The fact-finding mission has presented damning evidence that key figures in the military, including commander-in-chief of the armed forces Min Aung Hlaing, are responsible for genocide against the Rohingya people and should be tried at the ICC. Further cementing these claims, the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, described the UN report’s findings as consistent with the findings of the United States State Department. It is vital that the international community acts accordingly to these findings and pursues justice for the victims.
