Amnesty urges UNSC to take Myanmar to ICC for military abuses

JURIST 

Becca Salamacha | U. Pittsburgh School of Law, US
October 12, 2020 

 

Amnesty International urged the UN Security Council Monday to take action against Myanmar for military abuses. Amnesty’s condemnation of Myanmar’s military action follows after reports of intensified violence between Myanmar’s military and Araken Army that led to civilian casualties.

ျမန္မာ-ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ အျပန္အလွန္ တပ္ျဖန႔္

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )

ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား
2020-10-09

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ကင္းလွည့္ေနတဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္သားတခ်ိဳ႕ကို ေတြ႕ရစဥ္
Photo: AFP

ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္က စစ္သည္အင္အား ၂၅၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ေမာင္ေတာနယ္စပ္မွာ တပ္ျဖန႔္ခ်ထားတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ဘဂၤလာသတင္းစာေတြက စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၄ ရက္ေန႔မွာ ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ တစ္ပတ္ေက်ာ္အၾကာမွာ ဘဂၤ လားေဒ့ရွ္ကလည္း တန္ျပန္ တပ္ျဖန႔္ခ်ထားပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာက ႀကိဳတင္အသိမေပးဘဲ တပ္ျဖန႔္ခ်တဲ့ကိစၥကို ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရက ကုလသမဂၢလုံျခဳံေရးေကာင္စီဥကၠ႒အထိ တိုင္ၾကားထားပါတယ္။

ရခိုင္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာ တပ္မေတာ္နဲ႔ ရကၡိဳင့္တပ္ေတာ္ AA တို႔တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ပြားေနတာ ၂၀၁၈ ႏွစ္ကုန္ကတည္းက ဆိုေပမယ့္ ေမာင္ေတာမွာ တိုက္ပြဲမျဖစ္သေလာက္နည္းပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုေနရာကို တပ္မေတာ္က အင္အား အလုံးအရင္းခ်တာ ဘာေၾကာင့္ပါလဲ။

International Criminal Court: Prosecute and Offer Witness Protection to Myanmar Army Deserters

FORTIFY RIGHTS
Myanmar
September 08, 2020

Two Myanmar Army soldiers now in ICC custody in The Hague

(BANGKOK, September 8, 2020)—The International Criminal Court (ICC) should swiftly prosecute two Myanmar Army soldiers who confessed to their involvement in massacres, rape, and other crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar, and the court should facilitate witness protection for them, said Fortify Rights today. Fortify Rights has reason to believe Myanmar Army Private Myo Win Tun, 33, and Private Zaw Naing Tun, 30, are in the custody of the ICC and in The Hague.

“This is a monumental moment for Rohingya and the people of Myanmar in their ongoing struggle for justice,” said Matthew Smith, Chief Executive Officer at Fortify Rights. “These men could be the first perpetrators from Myanmar tried at the ICC, and the first insider witnesses in the custody of the court. We expect prompt action.”

အမှန်တရားရှာမှာလား လုပ်ဇာတ်တွေကို မီးထိုးပေးမှာလား

ဧရာဝတီ
အောင်ဇော်
5 October 2020

၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ် ရန်ကုန်တွင် ရခိုင်တိုင်းရင်းသားများက ကုလသမဂ္ဂနှင့် INGOs များ၏ ရခိုင်အရေးအပေါ် ကိုင်တွယ်သဘောထားပုံများအား ဆန့်ကျင်ကန့်ကွက် ဆန္ဒပြကြစဉ် / ဧရာဝတီ

ကုလသမဂ္ဂ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ အစီရင်ခံစာတင်သွင်းသူသစ် ခန့်အပ်လိုက်သူသည် အေမရိ ကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု မိန်းပြည်နယ် ပထမ လွတ်တော်မဲဆန္ဒနယ်မှ အောက်လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စား လှယ် ဟောင်း သောမတ် အင်ဒရူးဖြစ်သည်။

Mirza Fakhrul’s ‘incorrect’ comments may hinder progress of efforts to resolve Rohingya crisis: Quader

Prothum Alo------ 
Prothom Alo English
3 October 2020

Ruling Bangladesh Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the farsighted leadership of prime minister Sheikh Hasina kept intact and re-established all kinds of interests of the country at the international arena, reports state-run news agency BSS.

He said this in a statement strongly protesting and condemning the comments made by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a press conference today.

Myanmar Desertions Offer an Opening for Rohingya Justice

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Shannon Maree Torrens
September 30, 2020

The recent confessions of the two Myanmar army defectors bring justice one step closer to fruition.

The long-term persecution of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, which dates back to the 1970s, has become particularly grave in recent years, as increasing crackdowns have coincided with mounting challenges to the pursuit of justice. However, a new opportunity for justice for the Rohingya has recently opened, in the form of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

ျမန္မာစစ္သားႏွစ္ဦး ICC တရား႐ုံးေရာက္ေနရင္ ျပန္လႊဲအပ္ ဖို႔ တပ္မေတာ္တိုက္တြန္း

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )

ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား

2020-09-27

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေျမာက္အျမားကို သတ္ျဖတ္တဲ့အထဲ ကိုယ္တိုင္ပါဝင္ ခဲ့ တယ္ လို႔ ဝန္ခံထားတဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္သား ႏွစ္ေယာက္ဟာ နိုင္ငံတကာတရား႐ုံး အိုင္စီစီကို ေရာက္၊ မေရာက္ အျငင္းပြားမႈေတြရွိေနပါတယ္။ တပ္မေတာ္ေျပာခြင့္ရသူ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေဇာ္မင္းထြန္းကေတာ့ ဒီကိစၥဟာ ျမန္မာ နိုင္ငံရဲ့ တရားစီရင္ေရးစနစ္ကို စိန္ေခၚတာျဖစ္ၿပီး နိုင္ငံရဲ့အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာကို ေစာ္ကားတာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

Rohingya Genocide: ICC considers holding hearings in Bangladesh

theindepedent

26 September, 2020
UNB, Dhaka

Rohingya refugees want the hearings to be held away from ICC headquarters in The Hague. Photo: UNB/Wikicommons 

 

The Registry of the International Criminal Court has filed its observations on a joint request by the victims to hold the hearings in the Rohingya genocide case within reasonable proximity of the affected populations, instead of The Hague.  

In its filing submitted on September 21, which is available on the ICC’s website, the Registry outlines five possible scenarios whereby all or some part of the hearings may be held in Bangladesh, and details the pros and cons of each.

Commodifying prisoners of war in Myanmar

ASIA TIMES
by David Scott Mathieson
September 25, 2020

New York Times and Fortify Rights may have endangered Rohingya justice initiatives by trumpeting captured Myanmar soldiers' testimony 

Arakan Army soldiers on the march at an undisclosed location in Myanmar's Rakhine state. Image: Facebook 

BANGKOK – As long-anticipated international accountability measures for Myanmar gather pace, recent developments which at first seem to promise evidence for justice, on closer examination could potentially disrupt such investigations.

On September 8, the American nongovernmental organization Fortify Rights released a statement, in conjunction with the New York Times, of testimony by two Myanmar Army, or Tatmadaw, soldiers who claim to have perpetrated under military orders the murder of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state in 2017.

Bangladesh should host ICC’s proceedings in Cox’s Bazar

The Daily Star
Farhaan Uddin Ahmed
September 25, 2020 

File photo of Rohingya refugees praying at a gathering organised to mark the second anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar, at the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, August 25, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Rafiqur Rahman

On August 4, 2020, the legal representatives of three specific groups of Rohingya victims submitted a joint request to the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC), requesting it to direct the Registry of the Court to prepare an assessment of potential venues for holding the Court's proceedings in a state other than the host state (i.e. the Netherlands) so that proceedings can be held in a location which is physically closer to the victims of the alleged atrocities, who are currently residing in various refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. In brief, the victims requested the Court to direct the Registry to explore whether the proceedings could be held in a location physically closer to Cox's Bazar, where the victims are currently residing.

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေပၚ ျပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္ေၾကာင္း သက္ေသခိုင္ လုံသူေတြကို ဖမ္းဝရမ္းထုတ္ဖို႔ ICC ေရွ႕ေနခ်ဳပ္႐ုံး ေဆာင္ ႐ြက္မည္

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

15 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020
အင္ၾကင္းႏိုင္

ICC တရားရံုး

ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္ရဲ႕ နယ္ေျမရွင္းလင္းေရးအတြင္း ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအေပၚ ႏွိပ္စက္ညႇဥ္းပန္းမႈေတြမွာ ျပစ္မႈက်ဴး လြန္ေၾကာင္း သက္ေသအခိုင္အလုံတင္ျပႏိုင္မယ္ဆိုရင္၊ က်ဴးလြန္သူေတြကို ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ ဖမ္းဝရမ္း  ထုတ္ ၿပန္ မွာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ICC ေရွ႕ေနခ်ဳပ္႐ုံးက ဗြီအိုေအကို တနလၤာေန႔က တံု႕ျပန္တဲ့ အီးေမးလ္မွာ ေဖၚျပ ထားပါ တယ္။

Two Burmese soldiers confess to war crimes against the Rohingya

The Economic
Sep 12th 2020 edition

They shot the smoking guns

They are being questioned by the International Criminal Court


PRIVATE MYO WIN TUN looked steadily into the camera as he recounted two weeks in August 2017 when he and his battalion laid waste to several villages in Rakhine, a state in the far west of Myanmar. They were there, he said, as part of the Burmese army’s “clearance operations” targeting the Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim ethnic minority, which sparked the exodus of more than 740,000 Rohingyas to neighbouring Bangladesh. Mr Myo Win Tun confessed to participating in the massacre of 30 Rohingyas, whom he helped to bury in a mass grave, and to raping one woman. In another video, Private Zaw Naing Tun said that his battalion “wiped out about 20 Muslim villages”, and that he stood sentry while his superiors raped women. Based on their accounts, Fortify Rights, a human-rights NGO which obtained the footage, believes these two men may be directly responsible for killing 180 Rohingyas.

အိုင္စီစီ ရဲ့ ျမန္မာအေပၚ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္မွာ ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး အဆင့္အ ထက္ ကြင္းဆက္ေတြ ေပၚလာနိုင္

B B C
၁၀ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၂၀

 

ရခိုင္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းက စစ္ဆင္ေရးေတြမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ အေပၚ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ႏွိမ္နင္းခဲ့ၿပီး ရြာလုံးကၽြတ္ မီးရွို႔ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ စြပ္စြဲခံရ

ျမန္မာစစ္သားႏွစ္ဦး အိုင္စီစီ ရာဇဝတ္ တရား႐ုံးမွာ သက္ေသထြက္ရင္ ဒီအမႈနဲ႔ဆက္စပ္ၿပီး အမိန္႔ေပးတဲ့ အထက္ အရာရွိေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့ ကြင္းဆက္ေတြ ဆက္ေတြေပၚလာနိုင္တယ္လို႔ နိုင္ငံတကာ ျပစ္မႈဆိုင္ ရာ တရား႐ုံး ျဖစ္စဥ္ေတြကို အဆက္မျပတ္ေလ့လာေနတဲ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေရွ႕ေန၊ ဖက္ဒရယ္ ဥပေဒ အ ကယ္ဒမီ ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ထူးက ဘီဘီစီကို ေျပာပါတယ္ ။

ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာသတ္ျဖတ္မႈ စစ္သားႏွစ္ဦးထြက္ဆုိခ်က္ ယုံၾကည္ ရေလာက္ (Fortify Rights)

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

09 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020
ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္သိန္း

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕မွာ တပ္စဲြထားတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့စစ္တပ္ တပ္ဖဲြ႔၀င္မ်ား။ (ၾသဂုတ္ ၃၁၊ ၂၀၁၇)  

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ စစ္ဆင္ေရးေတြအတြင္း ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို အစုအေဝးလိုက္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈနဲ႔ တျခားရာဇဝတ္ မႈေတြမွာ ပါဝင္ခဲ့တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ စစ္သားႏွစ္ဦးရဲ႕ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ေတြဟာ ယံုၾကည္ႏုိင္ေလာက္တဲ့ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ ေတြျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ Fortify Rights လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႔ရဲ႕ အမႈေဆာင္အရာရွိခ်ဳပ္ Matthew Smith က ဗီြ အုိေအကိုေျပာပါတယ္။

ICC လက္ထဲ တပ္သားႏွစ္ေယာက္ေရာက္သြားလို႔ မတရား မႈေတြ ေဖာ္နိုင္မယ္လို႔ သုံးသပ္

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )

ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား ခင္ေမာင္စိုး
2020-09-08

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ႏွိမ္နင္းတဲ့ကာလမွာ ကိုယ္တိုင္ပါဝင္ခဲ့ရတယ္လို႔ ဝန္ခံထားတဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္သားႏွစ္ 

ေယာက္ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ့ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာရာဇဝတ္ခုံ႐ုံး International Criminal Court ကို ေရာက္သြား တဲ့အတြက္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈေတြကို အေရးယူနိုင္မယ့္ လမ္းစေပၚလာတယ္လို႔ ေရွ႕ေနေတြနဲ႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူေတြက သုံးသပ္ၾကပါတယ္။

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမႈမွာ ပတ္သက္သူ ျမန္မာစစ္သား ၂ ဦး ICC စစ္ ေဆးဖို႔ Fortify Rights တိုက္တြန္း

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္သိန္း
08 စက္တင္ဘာ၊ 2020

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕မွာ တပ္စဲြထားတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့စစ္တပ္ တပ္ဖဲြ႔၀င္မ်ား။ (ၾသဂုတ္ ၃၁၊ ၂၀၁၇)

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ စစ္ဆင္ေရးေတြအတြင္း ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို အစုအေဝးလိုက္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈနဲ႔ တျခားရာဇဝတ္ မႈေတြမွာ ပါဝင္ခဲ့တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ စစ္သားႏွစ္ဦးရဲ႕ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္ေတြဟာ ယံုၾကည္ႏုိင္ေလာက္တဲ့ ထြက္ဆို ခ်က္ ေတြျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ Fortify Rights လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႔ရဲ႕ အမႈေဆာင္အရာရွိခ်ဳပ္ Matthew Smith က ဗီြ အုိေအကိုေျပာပါတယ္။

လူအစုလိုက္သတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ဝန္ခံထားတဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္ သားႏွစ္ဦးကို ICC ထိန္းသိမ္းထား

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )

ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား

2020-09-08

၂ဝ၁၇ ခုႏွစ္က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းမွာ တပ္မေတာ္က နယ္ေျမရွင္းလင္းေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္စဥ္အတြင္း ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္ဆလင္ အရပ္သား အေျမာက္အျမားကို သတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ့ရာမွာ ကိုယ္တိုင္ ပါဝင္ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ဝန္ခံ ထား တဲ့ တပ္သားမ်ိဳးဝင္းထြန္းနဲ႔ တပ္သား ေဇာ္နိုင္ထြန္းတို႔ကို နိုင္ငံတကာ ရာဇဝတ္မႈဆိုင္ရာ တရား႐ုံး (ICC) က နယ္သာလန္နိုင္ငံ သည္ဟိတ္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတယ္လို႔ နယူးေယာက္တိုင္း သတင္းစာက ဒီေန႔ အတည္ျပဳ ေရးသားလိုက္ပါတယ္။

Rohingya refugees' lawyers lobby for International Criminal Court to sit in Asia

RNZ
1 September 2020

Two Australian lawyers acting on behalf of hundreds of Rohingya refugees are pushing to have the International Criminal Court (ICC) sit in Asia for the first time. 

Rohingya people at Jamtoli refugee camp at Ukhia in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. Photo: AFP / NurPhoto / Rehman Asad

The ICC is investigating allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Myanmar government and military officials in 2017.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya - a stateless, mostly Muslim minority group - fled to neighbouring Bangladesh during the unrest.

Bangladesh's Rohingya refugees lobby ICC to sit in Asia during war crimes investigation

ABC Net
By Angelique Lu

01.09.2020

Muhammed Nowkhim is one of hundreds of Rohingya refugees hoping to testify before the ICC.(Supplied. Muhammed Nowkhim.)

Two Australian lawyers acting on behalf of hundreds of Rohingya refugees are pushing to have the International Criminal Court (ICC) sit in Asia for the first time.

The ICC is investigating allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Myanmar Government and military officials in 2017.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya — a stateless, mostly Muslim minority group — fled to neighbouring Bangladesh during the unrest.

International Criminal Court officials sanctioned by US

B B C
2 September 2020

The US has imposed sanctions on senior officials in the International Criminal Court (ICC), including chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the court of "illegitimate attempts to subject Americans to its jurisdiction".

The Hague-based ICC is currently investigating whether US forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan.

The US has criticised the court since its foundation and is one of a dozen states which have not signed up.