Atrocities against Groups - documents
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"When the Myanmar Army attacked and massacred ethnic Rohingya civilians in 2017, more than 700,000 men, women, and children fled to Bangladesh, some riddled with bullets, burns, and gaping wounds. Hundreds of villages were in ashes, razed by soldiers and their civilian proxies.
But long after the physical wounds scarred over, Rohingya continue to suffer mental harm on a massive scale. President-elect Biden can and should do something about it.
There are upwards of one million Rohingya refugees now languishing in Bangladesh. They are experiencing trauma, depression, and anxiety at staggering rates. The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 15 to 20 percent of adults will experience some type of moderate or mild mental health disorder one year after an emergency, and in theory, those figures should decrease over time. By contrast, a new report published by Fortify Rights finds that 89 percent of Rohingya refugees in sprawling camps in Bangladesh are experiencing serious depression. Eighty-four percent are experiencing severe emotional distress. And a staggering 62 percent are experiencing symptoms equivalent to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—a debilitating condition that can prevent its victims from leading normal and constructive lives. What drives these extreme levels of distress?
Ongoing genocide in Myanmar is partly to blame, but the new quantitative data reveals that long-term systematic human rights violations in Myanmar and ongoing impunity are also key factors that continue to impact Rohingya mental health..."
Source/publisher:
"Time"
Date of publication:
2020-01-06
Date of entry/update:
2021-01-07
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Genocide, Atrocities against Groups - documents, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Mental health
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"Videotaped 'confessions' from two Myanmar soldiers appear to confirm alleged atrocities against Rohingya Muslims. Are they credible and can they build a case against the army?
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Source/publisher:
"DW News"
Date of publication:
2020-09-10
Date of entry/update:
2021-01-06
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Atrocities against Groups - documents
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Myanmar Report Shows Need for Bold Action in High-Risk Situations
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"United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres should act to prevent future UN failures in the face of atrocities, a coalition of 16 organizations said in a joint letter to the secretary-general that was released today.
The May 2019 report of an independent investigation by a Guatemalan diplomat, Gert Rosenthal, raised serious concerns about the UN’s handling of the human rights crisis in Myanmar. The secretary-general should promptly carry out reforms to prevent what the report called the recurrence of the “systematic” failures and “obvious dysfunctional performance” and to ensure individual accountability for those failures.
“The UN leadership promised it would never again turn a blind eye to atrocities after ignoring massive civilian deaths in Sri Lanka a decade ago, but it happened again,” said Louis Charbonneau, UN director at Human Rights Watch. “The UN leadership needs to avoid another catastrophe, including by holding officials who failed to act during Myanmar’s ethnic cleaning campaign accountable.”..."
Source/publisher:
"Human Rights Watch"
Date of publication:
2019-09-05
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-07
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Atrocities against Groups - documents, Human rights issues, UN human rights bodies and mechanisms
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"The Human Rights Council established the independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar in its resolution 34/22. In accordance with its mandate, the mission focused on the situation in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States since 2011. It also examined the infringement of fundamental freedoms, including the rights to freedom of expression, assembly and peaceful association, and the question of hate speech.
The mission established consistent patterns of serious human rights violations and abuses in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in addition to serious violations of international humanitarian law. These are principally committed by the Myanmar security forces, particularly the military. Their operations are based on policies, tactics and conduct that consistently fail to respect international law, including by deliberately targeting civilians. Many violations amount to the gravest crimes under international law. In the light of the pervasive culture of impunity at the domestic level, the mission finds that the impetus for accountability must come from the international community. It makes concrete recommendations to that end, including that named senior generals of the Myanmar military should be investigated and prosecuted in an international criminal tribunal for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes."
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Human Rights Council (A/HRC/39/64) Advance Edited Version...19 pages
Date of publication:
2018-08-27
Date of entry/update:
2018-08-27
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Discrimination against the Rohingya, International Criminal Court (Myanmar), Atrocities against Groups - documents, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Statements, reports, press briefings and webcasts on Myanmar by fact-finding entities mandated by the Council
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"Preparations for Genocide
and Crimes Against Humanity
Against Rohingya Muslims in
Rakhine State, Myanmar...This report documents and reveals a sinister subplot: Myanmar authorities
made extensive and systematic preparations for the commission of mass
atrocity crimes against indigenous Rohingya civilians during the weeks and
months before Rohingya-militant attacks on August 25, 2017. While the Myanmar authorities have subjected Rohingya to widespread
and systematic human rights violations for decades, the Myanmar Army?s
preparations for the most recent attacks on civilians in northern Rakhine
State occurred between October 2016 and August 2017. On October 9, 2016,
Rohingya men and boys armed mostly with sticks and knives attacked three
police outposts, reportedly killing nine police and sparking a Myanmar Armyled
attack on Rohingya civilians in approximately 40 villages in Maungdaw
Township, displacing more than 94,000 civilians.
Following that wave of brutal violence, the international community
failed to act, and Myanmar officialdom evidently took note: The military,
administrative, and civilian authorities subsequently made a series of
decisions and enacted several measures that contributed to the commission of
the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity beginning August 25, 2017..."
Source/publisher:
Fortify Rights
Date of publication:
2018-07-19
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-19
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Discrimination against the Rohingya, Atrocities against Groups - documents, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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Executive Summary: "Early in the morning of 25 August 2017, a Rohingya armed group known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation
Army (ARSA) launched coordinated attacks on security force posts in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. In
the days, weeks, and months that followed, the Myanmar security forces, led by the Myanmar Army,
attacked the entire Rohingya population in villages across northern Rakhine State.
In the 10 months after 25 August, the Myanmar security forces drove more than 702,000 women, men, and
children—more than 80 per cent of the Rohingya who lived in northern Rakhine State at the crisis?s outset—
into neighbouring Bangladesh. The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya population was achieved by a relentless
and systematic campaign in which the Myanmar security forces unlawfully killed thousands of Rohingya,
including young children; raped and committed other sexual violence against hundreds of Rohingya women
and girls; tortured Rohingya men and boys in detention sites; pushed Rohingya communities toward
starvation by burning markets and blocking access to farmland; and burned hundreds of Rohingya villages
in a targeted and deliberate manner.
These crimes amount to crimes against humanity under international law, as they were perpetrated as part
of a widespread and systematic attack against the Rohingya population. Amnesty International has evidence
of nine of the 11 crimes against humanity listed in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court being
committed since 25 August 2017, including murder, torture, deportation or forcible transfer, rape and other
sexual violence, persecution, enforced disappearance, and other inhumane acts, such as forced starvation.
Amnesty International also has evidence that responsibility for these crimes extends to the highest levels of
the military, including Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services.
This report is based on more than 400 interviews carried out between September 2017 and June 2018,
including during four research missions to the refugee camps in Bangladesh and three missions to
Myanmar, one of which was to Rakhine State. The interviews were overwhelmingly with survivors and direct
witnesses to crimes. Amnesty International sought out people from different ethnic and religious
communities from northern Rakhine State, including Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim group; ethnic
Rakhine, Mro, Khami, and Thet, all predominantly Buddhist groups; and Hindu.
In addition to survivors and witnesses, Amnesty International interviewed humanitarian aid workers in
Bangladesh and Myanmar; medical professionals in Bangladesh who had treated violence-related injuries
among Rohingya refugees; analysts of the Myanmar military; diplomats; journalists; and local administrative
officials in Myanmar, known as Village Administrators. The report also draws on an extensive analysis of
satellite imagery and data; forensic medical examination of injury photographs; authenticated photographic
and video material taken by Rohingya in northern Rakhine State; confidential documents, particularly on the
Myanmar military?s command structure; and open source investigations and analysis, including of Facebook
posts related to the Myanmar military..."
Source/publisher:
Amnesty International (ASA 16/8630/2018)
Date of publication:
2018-06-27
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-27
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Individual Documents
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International Criminal Court (Myanmar), Amnesty International reports on Burma/Myanmar, Discrimination against the Rohingya, Atrocities against Groups - documents, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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