Authorise probe into persecution against Rohingyas: ICC prosecutor

The Daily Star
Star Online Report
July 04, 2019

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today requested its judges to authorise an investigation into crimes against humanity, namely deportation, other inhumane acts and persecution against the Rohingyas.

In her request to the judges, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, said the requested authorisation to investigate the situation covers the period since the 9th of October 2016 until the recent waves of violence in Rakhine State on the territory of Myanmar as well as any other crimes which are sufficiently linked to these events.

International Criminal Court starts Rohingya probe

ASIA TIMES

ByBertil Lintner, Chiang Mai
March 7, 2019

Rohingya refugees wait to be taken to a camp after crossing the Naf River at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Palong Khali, near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on November 2, 2017. Photo: AFP/Adnan Abidi

The process of bringing the Myanmar military to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to answer charges of genocide has started. From March 8 to 12, ICC prosecutors will visit refugee camps in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar have been staying since 2017, the Bangladesh Chronicle reported on Wednesday.