Sub-title:
Int’l communities’ inertia to blame, says UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rohingya
Description:
"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.
Myanmar is not only unable and unwilling to investigate and prosecute international crimes, the international community are enabling them to continue to act with impunity. Members of the UN Security Council are blocking routes to international justice and enabling barriers, the report said.
The report titled A New Shape of Catastrophe was published two years after the Myanmar military crackdown in Rakhine that caused an influx of over 743,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), chaired by Anne Main MP and co-chaired by Rushanara Ali MP, has called for the UK, as penholder on Myanmar at the Security Council, to lead on a Chapter VII UN Security Council resolution, setting out current conditions and the need for referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC)..."
Source/publisher:
"The Daily Star"
Date of Publication:
2019-09-12
Date of entry:
2019-09-12
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar, Bangladesh
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Rakhine State
Language:
English
Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good
