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.

UK for keeping Rohingya issue alive on UNSC agenda

NEWAGE

Diplomatic Correspondent 

Oct 01,2020 

The United Kingdom on Wednesday stressed the need for keeping the Rohingya issues alive on the international platforms including the UN Security Council for mounting pressure on Myanmar for ensuring repatriation of the members of the community to Rakhine.

‘Myanmar must remain on the agenda’ of the UNSC and likeminded countries would require to work together on the matter, British high commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson said in a talk held on a web platform with Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh in Dhaka.

UN council members urge halt to Myanmar-Arakan Army fighting

THE Star
Sunday, 13 Sep 2020

Ethnic Chin people hold placards during a protest asking for an end to conflict in Chin state and Rakhin State in Yangon on July 13, 2019. Around 1,000 Chin people have been displaced as fighting continues between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) in the area between Chin State and Rakhine State. - AFP 

UNITED NATIONS/YANGON, Sept 13 (AP): A majority of UN Security Council members called for an immediate halt to fighting between Myanmar government forces and the Arakan Army guerrilla force following a closed council meeting on the latest situation in the South-East Asian nation.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအား ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ပါဝင္ခြင့္ေပးရန္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအား UNSC အဖြဲ႕ဝင္နိုင္ငံမ်ားက တိုက္တြန္း

AIR WORLD SERVICE
September 13, 2020
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လာမည့္နိုဝင္ဘာလ ၈ ရက္ေန႔၌ က်င္းပမည့္ အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအား ပါဝင္ခြင့္ျပဳ ရန္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအား ကုလသမဂၢ လုံျခဳံေရးေကာင္စီ (UNSC) အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ၈ နိုင္ငံက တိုက္တြန္းေျပာၾကား လိုက္သည္။ အားလုံးပါဝင္နိုင္ၿပီး သန႔္ရွင္းသည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအပါအဝင္ လူမႈအသိုင္း အဝိုင္း အားလုံး လုံျခဳံမႈ၊ အျပည့္အဝရွိမႈႏွင့္ တန္းတူညီမၽွမႈတို႔ႏွင့္အတူ ပါဝင္သြားနိုင္ရန္ ဘယ္လ္ဂ်ီယမ္၊ ဒိုမီနီကန္ရီပတ္ဘလစ္၊ အက္စ္တိုနီးယား၊ ျပင္သစ္၊ ဂ်ာမဏီ၊ တူနီးရွား၊ ၿဗိတိန္ႏွင့္ အေမရိကန္တို႔မွ ေသာ ၾကာေန ႔၌ ပူးတြဲထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့သည့္ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။

8 UNSC members appeal to Myanmar: Appeal for Rohingya participation in general elections

WION
Sep 13, 2020,

8 member nations of the UNSC have urged Myanmar to ensure that the Rohingyas can participate in the general elections. Watch report.

Link:https://www.wionews.com/videos/8-unsc-members-appeal-to-myanmar-appeal-for-rohingya-participation-in-general-elections-327125

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ခ်က္ခ်င္း အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး လုံၿခံဳေရး ေကာင္စီ၀င္ အီးယူႏုိင္ငံေတြေတာင္းဆုိ

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

ေဇာ္ဝင္းလိႈင္
15 ေမ၊ 2020 

လုံၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီေဆြးေႏြးပြဲအၿပီး ဥေရာပ ၅ ႏုိင္ငံ ေဆြးေႏြး

ၿမန္မာ့အေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ကုလသမဂၢလုံၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီမွာ တံခါးပိတ္ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းကုိ ကိုေဇာ္၀င္းလႈိင္က တင္ျပေပးမွာပါ။

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္း ျဖစ္ေပၚတုိးတက္မႈေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ အထူးကုိယ္ စား လွယ္ Christine Schraner Burgener က ေမလ ၁၄ ရက္ေန႔မွာ လုံၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီ အဖြဲ႔၀င္ေတြကုိ တံခါး ပိတ္ တင္ျပခဲ့တာပါ။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ အားလုံးပါ၀င္တဲ့ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးကုိ ခ်က္ခ်င္းေဖာ္ေဆာင္ဖုိ႔ အီးယူ ၅ ႏုိင္ငံကုိယ္စား လုံၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီ၀င္ Belgium ႏုိင္ငံက ကုလသမဂၢဆုိင္ရာ ဒုတိယ အၿမဲတမ္းကုိယ္စား လွယ္ Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve က ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲအၿပီး ေျပာပါတယ္။

Turkey to raise Rohingya issue at next UNSC meet

Bangladesh Post
By Staff Correspondent
May.09, 2020

Dr Momen ,Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has promised to raise the Rohingya issue at the next UN Security Council meeting.
He made the promise while talking to Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on phone on Saturday.

The Turkish foreign minister said his country would continue all kinds of cooperation for the safe return of the Rohingya refugees residing in Bangladesh to Myanmar.

Bangladesh should file intervention under Article 62 of ICJ Statute

dailyobserver
Iffat Sariya Rahman
Saturday, 15 February, 2020

Bangladesh should file intervention under Article 62 of ICJ Statute

The meeting on 4 February 2020 at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was interesting for the people who are following what is happening with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the Rohingya. 

EU states urge justice in Myanmar at UN Security Council

Frontier
MYANMAR
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
By AFP

Rohingya refugees watch on a mobile phone a live feed of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's appearance at the UN's International Court of Justice in the Hague, on December 11, 2019. (AFP) 

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES — The UN Security Council's EU member states called Tuesday for Myanmar to bring to justice those who have carried out human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims.

Europeans Press For Action on Rohingya After China, Vietnam Shield Myanmar at UNSC

RADIO FREE ASIA
2020-02-05

The UN Security Council discusses maintaining international peace and security and upholding the United Nations Charter during a meeting at UN headquarters in New York, Jan. 9, 2020.
AFP/UN/Mark Garten 

European member states of the United Nations called for Myanmar on Tuesday to take measures to hold to account those responsible for committing human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims after the Security Council failed to support an order by the international body’s top court to protect members of the minority group.

UN takes no action on order against Myanmar on Rohingyas

The Washington Times
By EDITH M. LEDERER 
Associated Press 
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday discussed the International Court of Justice’s order that Myanmar must do all it can to prevent genocide against the Rohingya Muslims, but failed to agree on a statement.

Myanmar’s ally China as well as Vietnam, which is part of the regional Association of Southeast Nations along with Myanmar, objected, diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the meeting was closed. 

SECURITY COUNCIL REPORT ( MYANMAR )

UNSC

• 3 February 2020

Briefing on Myanmar following the ICJ Order Indicating Provisional Measures

What's in Blue

Tomorrow (4 February), the Security Council is expected to meet in consultations for a briefing on Myanmar from Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific. It seems that there was interest in also having...

• 29 January 2020

Briefing on Cooperation between the UN and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

What's in Blue

Tomorrow (30 January), the Security Council will hold a briefing on cooperation between the UN and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This will be the first Council meeting focused on cooperation with ASEAN. Secretary-General António Guterres and ASEAN...

European Union on Myanmar - Security Council Media Stakeout (4 February 2020)

United Nations
2020.02.04

Informal comments to the media by the Representative of the European Union of the Security Council to the United Nations, on behalf of the European Union members of the Security Council on the situation in Myanmar.
Link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ1l3DP4sxo

Europeans demand Rohingya justice at UN

AA
James Reinl
04.02.2020
 
Diplomats bash Myanmar’s human rights record after Security Council closed-door meeting

UNITED NATIONS 

Myanmar must start prosecuting those responsible for atrocities against its mostly-Muslim Rohingya minority and uphold decisions by international judges, European diplomats said Tuesday in New York.

Speaking with reporters after a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council, Estonia’s Ambassador Sven Jurgenson, said last month’s ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague must be followed.

International court, finally, acts on the Rohingyas of Myanmar

KHMER TIMES
January 31, 2020
Jay Manoj Sanklecha / HINDUSTAN TIMES 

Photo taken on Feb. 28, 2019 shows the United Nations Security Council holding a meeting on the situation on Myanmar, at the UN headquarters in New York. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)

 

The inability of international law to effectively address situations of mass human rights atrocities, in particular genocide, within states has been the source of much consternation for international lawyers. The term genocide, deriving from the Greek prefix genos meaning race or tribe and the Latin suffix cide meaning killing, was coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

‘UNSC needs to provide sustainable solution to Rohingya crisis’

Dhaka Tribune

Saturday, Apr 27, 2019

Rohingya refugees walk in a protest march after attending a ceremony to remember the first anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar on August 25, 2018 AFP

Justice is a must to create confidence, incentivize repatriation, says envoy Masud
The UN Security Council has to come up with a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis, ensuring the voluntary, safe and dignified return of Rohingyas to their place of origin, and perpetrators are brought to justice, said Ambassador and permanent representative of Bangladesh to the UN Masud Bin Momen

Why Bangladesh Cannot Accommodate More Refugees From Myanmar?

The EurAsian Time

By EurAsian Times- March 2, 2019

Bangladesh informed the UN Security Council that it will no longer be able to accommodate more refugees from Myanmar. Bangladesh is paying the huge price for being responsible by allowing hundreds of thousands of refugees to stay in Bangladesh, said the Foreign Secretary.

Rohingya Muslims Start To Flee To Bangladesh as India Intensifies Deportation Process

Crisis in Rakhine State, Violence Could Derail Gains in Myanmar’s Peace Process, Special Envoy Warns Security Council, Calling for Unimpeded Humanitarian Access

SC/13727
28 February 2019

• Security Council

8477th Meeting (PM)

Fragility, tensions and violence in Myanmar — including, but not limited to, the recent crisis in Rakhine State — risk jeopardizing important strides made in that country’s peace process, the top United Nations official in Myanmar warned the Security Council today, urging the 15-member organ to continue to lend support.

Bangladesh accuses Myanmar of 'hollow promises' as it tells UN it will no longer take in refugees

The Telegraph

• Our Foreign Staff

1 March 2019 • 3:32pm

Bangladesh has said that Myanmar has obstructed the return of refugees who have been fleeing to Bangladesh since a military crackdown 18 months ago.   Credit: REUTERS/Clodagh KilcoyneB

angladesh told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that it cannot take any more refugees from Myanmar, some 18 months after more than 700,000 mainly Rohingya Muslims started pouring across the border fleeing a military crackdown.

Accountability essential for combating impunity in Myanmar: UN envoy

daily sun

2nd March, 2019 04:24:24

UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy in Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener has said accountability is essential for combating impunity and genuine reconciliation in Myanmar.

Myanmar’s Independent Commission of Enquiry has responded positively to her recommendation that it engages with United Nations human rights entities.