Showing posts with label Myanmar Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myanmar Government. Show all posts

Friday, October 23, 2020

We Cannot Condone the Myanmar Government’s Lies with Silence

JUST SECURITY
Kerry Kennedy and Angelita Baeyens
October 21, 2020

Myanmar soldiers’ confession shows the moment is now to give the Rohingya justice and accountability. 

Of course, the details never added up. But now, with recent confessions from two Myanmar Army soldiers, the truth hangs in the open air, exposing the blatant lies that government officials have told about their genocide against the Rohingya.

That truth was already clear to the dozen of us—human rights lawyers, activists, documentarians, former members of Congress and political aides—who took part in a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expert delegation trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh in 2018. We arrived in the country hoping to gain a detailed and updated understanding of the Rohingya crisis.