Crimes against Humanity: Myanmar continues to act with impunity

The Daily Star

September 12, 2019

Diplomatic Correspondent

Int’l communities’ inertia to blame, says UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rohingya

Rohingyas coming down from a boat carrying the refugees from Myanmar in August 2017. File photo: Reuters

Inertia at the international level has removed pressure on Myanmar and its allies and enabled impunity despite the country’s military being accused of crimes against humanity and genocide, said UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on the rights of the Rohingya in a report published on Tuesday.

“Despite the widespread recognition that crimes, possibly amounting to crimes against humanity and genocide, were committed, the Myanmar military are yet to experience meaningful consequences either criminally or politically,” it said.

Crimes against RohingyasICC seeks to sign agreement with Dhaka

Bangla Tribune

Sheikh Shahariar Zaman

Jul 13, 2019

Rohingya refugee children play at the Palongkhali refugee camp near Cox`s Bazar, Bangladesh

December 22, 2017. REUTERS/File Photo

A delegation of the International Criminal Court is due in Dhaka this week to open talks with Bangladesh on signing an agreement as a prerequisite to open a full investigation into alleged crimes against the Rohingyas who were driven from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

The ICC team led by one of its deputy prosecutors is expected to arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday (Jul 16), an official told Bangla Tribune.

Myanmar pushing the region and the world towards a catastrophic situation centering Rohingya refugee issue

BLiTZ
June 16, 2019
Anita Mathur

 After playing dilly-dally with Bangladesh for over two years and fooling the international community with its false promise of taking back over one million Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh, Myanmar has now resorted to its nefarious agenda of making its Rakhine state totally Rohingya free – more precisely – Muslim free.

Russian, Bangladesh foreign ministers meet in Moscow.

AA
Elena Teslova | 29.04.2019

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov calls on Myanmar and Bangladesh to solve Rohingya issue via dialogue

MOSCOW 

The question of the oppressed Rohingya people must be solved between Myanmar and Bangladesh via dialogue, Russia’s foreign minister said on Monday.

The international community has to provide support to the two states to find a mutually appropriate solution, Sergey Lavrov told a news conference in the capital Moscow after meeting his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momen.

"I don't see any other decision, except bilateral, except a decision based on dialogue, on mutual understanding, as it must be between two neighbors," Lavrov said.

There is no progress on the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar -- which they fled to escape persecution -- but Bangladeshi officials have gathered refugees’ biometric data and now have more precise data on them, said Momen.

This information will help resolve the Rohingya issue, he said.

Persecuted people

The Rohingya, described by the UN as the world's most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.

According to Amnesty International, more than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community in August 2017.

‘Sold Like Fish’ Report Claims Crimes Against Humanity Committed

The Organization for World Peace 

7 Apr, 2019
Current Events / Myanmar
by Laura O'Dwyer

A report based on a multi-year independent investigation had been released by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM), and human rights advocacy group Fortify Rights on Wednesday, March 20. The 121-page report, titled ‘Sold Like Fish’ focuses on the human trafficking of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Malaysia from 2012 to 2015. It releases unpublished evidence of the human rights violations that occurred, including 270 interviews conducted with survivors and witnesses of the human trafficking, as well as governmental officials.

Human Traffickers Accused of 'Crimes Against Humanity' in Thailand and Malaysia

TIME
By Amy Gunia
Updated: March 28, 2019

 

Roshid Alam holds photograph of his son, Mohammad Faisal, who was only 14 when he and 170 other Rohingya got on a boat in 2012 bound for Malaysia in this photo in Shamlapur, Bangladesh on July, 4. 2015.
Shazia Rahman—Getty Images

Human rights experts say a transnational criminal syndicate committed crimes against humanity in trafficking Rohingya Muslims who fled violence and persecution in Myanmar, as well as Bangladeshi nationals trying to reach Malaysia.

Traffickers allegedly murdered, enslaved, imprisoned, tortured, raped, starved, and forced displacement of their victims between 2012 to 2015, according to a joint investigation by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and Bangkok-based rights group Fortify Rights.

Traffickers committed crimes against Rohingyas: Report

theindepedent

28 March, 2019

Independent Online Desk

Over 170,000 boarded ships from Myanmar, Bangladesh in 2012-15, it says

Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and Fortify Rights find “reasonable grounds” to believe that a human-trafficking syndicate committed “crimes against humanity” in Malaysia and Thailand against Rohingya men, women, and children from 2012 to 2015.

Report: Rohingya Refugees Suffered Crimes Against Humanity in Massive Human Trafficking Scheme.

RFA
Eugene Whong
2019-03-27

Malaysian forensic team members inspect remains found in an unmarked grave outside Wang Kelian, Malaysia, near the border with Thailand, May 26, 2015.

A human trafficking syndicate committed crimes against humanity between 2012 and 2015 against Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees trying to flee to Malaysia and Thailand, two Southeast Asia-based human rights groups said in a report on Wednesday.

In the joint 121-page work titled “Sold Like Fish,” the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and the Bangkok-based Fortify Rights provides accounts of survivors who were deceived by the traffickers, believing they were boarding boats to seek refuge abroad.

( 12.12.2016 ) Burma Could Be Guilty of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ as Rohingya Crackdown Intensifies

TIMES
Nikhil Kumar @nkreports
Dec. 11, 2016

 

Rohingya Muslims who have fled from violence in Burma take shelter at the Leda unregistered Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Dec. 5 2016

"Things are not as they are being portrayed by the government"

Reports from Burma’s northern Arakan state, where violence against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority has forced tens of thousands to flee for their lives, suggest the situation there is “getting very close to what we would all agree are crimes against humanity,” the U.N.’s top human-rights investigator for the country has said. “I am getting reports from inside the country and from neighboring places too that things are not as they are being portrayed by the government. We are seeing a lot of very graphic and very disturbing photos and video clips,” Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the country, tells TIME.