Rapes and massacres detailed in Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar authorities

RFA
By Carlos G. Hamann, special for RFA
2023.06.13

Argentine case, under ‘universal jurisdiction,’ aims to hold leaders accountable

Roshida Begum, 22, shows where the Myanmar military slit her throat, Dec. 1, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. “The military took me and 5 other women into a house and raped us. After they were done, they slit our necks with machetes. They thought I was dead and they left and set the house on fire. I was the only one who escaped." She fled from Tula Toli village in Myanmar to Bangladesh shortly after the Aug. 25, 2017, attack.  Credit: Allison Joyce/Getty Image

 

Women gang raped, children stabbed and killed, men shot and burned to death.

The criminal complaint of genocide by Myanmar’s armed forces against the Muslim Rohingya minority includes detailed accounts of stomach-churning atrocities.

Argentine court hears allegations of genocide against Myanmar leaders

Benar News
Carlos G. Hamann, special to BenarNews
2023.06.07
Washington

Maung Tun Khin (left), president of the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK, stands with Argentine human rights lawyer Tomas Ojea Quintana outside a federal court in Buenos Aires, Dec. 16, 2021.
Juan Mabromata/AFP

Updated at 10:28 p.m. ET on 2023-06-07

An Argentine court is hearing testimony about allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity committed by senior Myanmar officials against Rohingya Muslims in a landmark case.

လူမ်ိဳးတံုး သတ္ျဖတ္မႈ စစ္ေကာင္စီအေပၚ စဲြဆိုခ်က္ အာဂ်င္တီးနားတရားရံုး စတင္ၾကားနာ

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
16 ဒီဇင္ဘာ၊ 2021

BROUK ဥကၠဌ ဦးထြန္းခင္ (ဘယ္)နဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ေဟာင္း Tomas Ojea Quintana (ညာ)တို႔အား အာဂ်င္တီးနား ဖယ္ဒရယ္တရား႐ုံးေရွ႕ ေတြ႕ရစဥ္။ ( ပုံေဟာင္း -Buenos Aires ျမဳိ႕ November 13, 2019 )

လူမ်ိဳးတံုး သတ္ျဖတ္မႈ စစ္ေကာင္စီအေပၚ စဲြဆိုခ်က္ အာဂ်င္တီးနားတရားရံုး စတင္ၾကားနာ


႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေပၚ လူမ်ဳိးတုံးသတ္ျဖတ္မႈ ဆိုတဲ့ စဲြခ်က္နဲ႔ ျမန္မာစစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြအေပၚ စဲြထားတဲ့အမႈကို လက္ခံၾကားနာ စစ္ေဆးေနပါတယ္။ အာဂ်င္တီးနား ျပည္ေထာင္စုတရားရံုးမွာ အမႈစဲြတင္ထားတဲ့ ၿဗိတိန္အေျခ စိုက္ ျမန္မာ-ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအဖဲြ႕ BROUK ဥကၠဌ ဦးထြန္းခင္ ကိုယ္တိုင္ ဒီကေန႔ ၾကာသာပေတးေန႔မွာ ထြက္ဆို မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔စဲြနဲ႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ထားတဲ့ BROUK ရဲ႕ ေၾကညာခ်က္မွာေတာ့- Buenos Aires မွာရွိတဲ့ အာ ဂ်င္တီးနား ဗဟိုတရား႐ုံးေရွ႕ေမွာက္မွာ အမႈနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ေဒသစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ညေန ၃ နာရီမွာ အဖဲြ႕ဥကၠဌ ဦးထြန္းခင္ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ေပးမွာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။

Rohingya women testify in Argentina court on ‘brutal massacre in Rakhine state’

The Daily Star
Wed Aug 18, 2021

Rohingya refugee girls are seen at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh. Photo: Anisur Rahman/ Star file

In a historic development, Rohingya women have described how the Myanmar military carried out a brutal massacre in their village, in an Argentinean court of law, under the aegis of universal jurisdiction.

Speaking remotely to the Federal Criminal Appeals Court in Buenos Aires from Cox's Bazar on Tuesday, the women told how soldiers killed their husbands in Chuk Pyin, Rakhine, Myanmar, according to a statement from the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK).