12/Dec/2020
The woman has sought $ 2 million in compensation for the death of her husband, who was killed by government soldiers during a 2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar.
File Photo: Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to receive aid distributed by local organisations at Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo A Rohingya woman is seeking $2 million in compensation for the death of her husband, who was killed by government soldiers during a
2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar, lawyers said.
Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) and an international law firm, McDermott Will & Emery, said they filed a complaint on Thursday with Myanmar’s human rights commission on behalf of Setara Begum, whose husband Shoket Ullah was killed at Inn Din village in Rakhine state.
Her claim is the first complaint related to the Rohingya known to have been filed through Myanmar’s human rights commission, according to LAW, a legal non-profit organisation based in Geneva.
