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Source/publisher: International Criminal Court (ICC) - icc-cpi.int
Date of entry/update: 2018-06-24
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Description: "At the end of August 2018, as this book was about to go to press,the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released its report summarizing the main endings and recommendations of its Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar. Thereport outlines serious human rights violations and abuses in Kachin,Shan and Rakhine States. It recommends that six senior military agures be investigated for genocide against the Rohingya, including Myanmar’s armed forces commander-in-chief Senior General MinAung Hlaing, and that the case be taken up by the InternationalCriminal Court (ICC), or alternatively that an ad hoc internationalcriminal tribunal be created (Human Rights Council 2018). 1 The report notes that “The role of social media is significant. Facebook has been a useful instrument for those seeking to spread hate, in a contextwhere for most users Facebook is the internet. Although improved inrecent months, Facebook’s response has been slow and ineffective” p. 74). Facebook quickly responded to the report’s release byremoving the accounts of eighteen high-profile army figures in Myanmar, including Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and fifty-two Facebook pages, which had a combined total following of close totwelve million users (Facebook 2018).A few days later, two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were sentenced to seven years in prison under the Official Secrets Act over accusations of holding secret government documentsthat they intended to share with international media and the ethnicarmed group Arakan Army (Sithu Aung Myint 2018). The two werearrested in December 2017 after investigating a massacre of Rohingyamen and boys in the coastal town of Inn Din in northern Rakhine State. After responding to a call from police officers, who met them in a restaurant and handed them documents, the journalists were arrestedfor having the documents in their possession. As they were beingtaken away from the court after the sentencing, Wa Lone was quotedas saying, “We know we did nothing wrong. I have no fear. I believein justice, democracy and freedom” (Shoon Naing and Aye Min Thant2018, 122). The arrest and subsequent sentencing were met with nationaland international condemnation, as was the rejection of their appealin early 2019. At a public protest to call for their release, organizer EiEi Moe, from the pro-democracy youth movement Generation Wave,described their jailing as “blocking the eyes and blinding the ears ofthe public” (Dunant and Su Myat Mon 2018, 115). 2 These events underscore the complexities of Myanmar’s muchlauded “transition”. Celebrated early on for the release of imprisoned journalists and the end of pre-publication censorship, hopes forincreased freedom of expression and media freedom were tempered by the crackdown that followed. Much has happened in the mediasector since the controversial elections in 2010 organized by themilitary junta and boycotted by Aung San Suu Kyi and the NationalLeague for Democracy (NLD), including reforms to laws that hadrepressed the media for decades. Some argue that these changes area continuation of the military government’s Seven Step Roadmap toDisciplined Democracy, announced in 2003 (see the interview withThiha Saw, this volume; Lall 2016; Rogers 2012)..."
Source/publisher: Academia.edu (USA)
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-09
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Description: "နယ်သာလန်နိုင်ငံက ICJ တရားရုံးအထိ ကိုယ်တိုင်သွားပြီး နိုင်ငံ့ကိုယ်စား ဦးဆောင်ရင်ဆိုင်ရဲတဲ့ ဒေါ်အောင် ဆန်းစုကြည်ရဲ့လုပ်ရပ်ကို ကြိဆိုထောက်ခံတယ်လို့ ဝါရင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးလှုပ်ရှားသူ Equality Myanmar ရဲ့ အမှုဆောင်ဒါရိုက်တာ ဦးအောင်မျိုးမင်းကပြောပါတယ်။ One News က ဦးထက်အောင်ကျော်နဲ့ သီးသန့် မေးမြန်းခန်းအတွင်း သူက အဲဒီလိုပြောခဲ့တာပါ။ အခု ထုတ်လွှင့်ပေးမယ့် မေးမြန်းချက် ပထမ ပိုင်းမှာတော့… ICJ နဲ့ ICC ဘာကွာသလဲ၊ ICC က စွပ်စွဲစဉ်က ဘာမှမတုန့်ပြန်ဘဲ ICJ ပြောမှ နိုင်ငံတော်အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ကိုယ်တိုင် သွားရောက်ဖြေရှင်းတာ ဘာကြောင့်လဲ၊ တရားရုံးရဲ့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်က ဘာဖြစ်နိုင်သလဲ၊ လူထုထောက်ခံပွဲတွေက ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ကို ထောက်ခံ တာအပြင် ရခိုင်အရေးဖြစ်စဉ်တွေအပေါ်ပါ ကရက်ရိုက်မှုရှိလာနိုင်သလား… စတဲ့အကြောင်းအရာတွေကို ဆွေးနွေးတင်ပြထားပါတယ်။..."
Source/publisher: One News (Myanmar)
Date of entry/update: 2019-12-10
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Sub-title: Members of Northern Alliance bloc of armed groups say they have evidence for prosecuting military for war crimes, genocide
Description: "A coalition of ethnic rebel groups has welcomed efforts by the international community to punish Myanmar’s military through legal processes for alleged genocide against ethnic minority groups including Rohingya Muslims in the country’s west. Three members of the Northern Alliance bloc of armed groups -- the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), Arakan Army and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army -- issued a joint statement on Thursday welcoming three lawsuits against Myanmar at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and an Argentine court for rights violations in ethnic areas. The groups said that during the past 70 years of the ongoing civil conflict, Myanmar’s military has committed genocide, extrajudicial arrests, inhuman torture, massacres, abductions and use of gang rape as instruments of war. They added that they stand ready to cooperate and collect evidence of war crimes by the military in northeastern Shan state and western Rakhine state between 2009 and 2019 and are in full support of the international organizations that have taken up the matter with the ICC and ICJ..."
Source/publisher: "Asia-Pacific"
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-29
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Summary: "Myanmar's government has set up a special unit on "international criminal justice" as it faces a series of lawsuits over its brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in 2017. The unit is designed to...
Sub-title: The unit will provide advice on international criminal justice as government prepares to defend itself at The Hague.
Description: "Myanmar's government has set up a special unit on "international criminal justice" as it faces a series of lawsuits over its brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in 2017. The unit is designed to strengthen legal expertise and provide opinion to government ministries in relation to international criminal law, according to a statement from the office of State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi. More: Will cases brought against Myanmar deliver justice to the Rohingya? Lawsuit: Aung San Suu Kyi 'committed crimes' against Rohingya Gambia files Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar at UN court The country's de facto leader and Nobel Peace prize winner is heading the country's delegation to the United Nations' top court where it faces accusations of genocide against the Rohingya. The hearings are due to start on December 10. More than 730,000 Rohingya, most of them Muslims, fled to neighbouring Bangladesh following the brutal crackdown by the military, which UN investigators have concluded was carried out with "genocidal intent"..."
Source/publisher: "Al Jazeera" (Qatar)
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-28
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Description: "opening of an ICC investigation into the situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar..."
Source/publisher: International Criminal Court (ICC) (The Hague)
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-25
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Source/publisher: International Criminal Court (ICC) (The Hague)
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-25
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Source/publisher: International Criminal Court (ICC) (The Hague)
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-25
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Source/publisher: International Criminal Court (ICC) (The Hague)
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-25
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Source/publisher: International Criminal Court (ICC) (The Hague)
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-25
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Summary: " Before becoming Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest for defying the country's feared generals. Now, the Nobel peace laureate faces an attempt to have her imprisoned...
Sub-title: Human rights icon Suu Kyi accused of 'tending towards the annihilation of the Rohingya', criminal complaint alleges.
Description: " Before becoming Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest for defying the country's feared generals. Now, the Nobel peace laureate faces an attempt to have her imprisoned for supporting them. A lawsuit filed in Argentina on Wednesday alleges the former human rights icon contributed to a genocidal campaign against the Rohingya minority that included military-led mass killings in August 2017. More: Gambia files Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar at UN court UN chief 'deeply concerned' over Rohingya crisis Opinion: Inaction on China and India's crimes emboldens Myanmar Among other things, she oversaw government policies "tending towards the annihilation of the Rohingya", such as confining them to "ghettos" with severely limited access to healthcare and education, the lawsuit said. "For the cycle of violence to end, it is crucial that all those responsible for the genocide - whether they wear a uniform or not - are brought to justice," said Tun Khin, president of the London-based Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK), which filed the case at a federal court in Buenos Aires. Efforts at securing justice for the Rohingya have so far largely focussed on top generals who orchestrated the 2017 killings in coastal Rakhine state, including the military's commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing..."
Source/publisher: "Al Jazeera" (Qatar)
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-15
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Description: "On the Oct.1, 2019 broadcast of "Talking Foreign Policy," Dean Scharf discusses the international response to the Rohingya genocide in Burma with five panelists, who are experts on peace negotiations, national security, human rights and war crimes. Panelists include: Ambassador Todd Buchwald, former Ambassador at Large for War Crimes.."
Source/publisher: Case Western Reserve University School of Law (USA)
Date of entry/update: 2019-10-08
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Description: 06 September 2018 | Pre-Trial Chamber I | Decision...Contains a link to the text of the Decision
Source/publisher: International Criminal Court
2018-09-06
Date of entry/update: 2018-09-08
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Description: "... In a historic decision, the ICC...granted the Prosecutor jurisdiction to investigate and possibly prosecute the crime against humanity of deportation of Rohingya to Bangladesh as well as persecution and other inhumane acts..."
Source/publisher: International Criminal Court (No: ICC - RoC46(3) - 01/18)
2018-09-06
Date of entry/update: 2018-09-08
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Description: "...Historic decision grants court jurisdiction over forced deportation (WASHINGTON D.C. and YANGON, September 7, 2018)—The United Nations Security Council should refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the full spectrum of atrocity crimes in Myanmar, Fortify Rights said today. In a historic decision, the ICC yesterday granted the Prosecutor jurisdiction to investigate and possibly prosecute the crime against humanity of deportation of Rohingya to Bangladesh as well as persecution and other inhumane acts. ?The court?s decision is monumental, but this is just a first step,” said Matthew Smith, Chief Executive Officer at Fortify Rights. ?This decision should inspire more international action, not less. An ICC referral from the Security Council now would enable the court to investigate the full spectrum of atrocities against Rohingya, Kachin, Shan, and others.”..."
Source/publisher: Fortify Rights
2018-09-07
Date of entry/update: 2018-09-08
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Description: Summary: "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."
Source/publisher: Human Rights Council (A/HRC/39/64) Advance Edited Version...19 pages
2018-08-27
Date of entry/update: 2018-08-27
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Description: "Members of parliament have called for Myanmar military to be brought to justice for its ?murderous operation?...More than 130 members of parliament, across five countries in south-east Asia, have demanded that Myanmar be investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the most united condemnation from the region since the violence began against the Rohingya a year ago. In a joint statement released by Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights, they called for the Myanmar military to be ?brought to justice” for its ? murderous operation in Rakhine State”...".....See also further Rohingya articles on the page
Source/publisher: "The Guardian"
2018-08-24
Date of entry/update: 2018-08-25
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Description: SPEAKERS: Afghanistan, Ms Suraya Dalil... Bangladesh, Mr. Md. Emdadul Islam Chowdhury... Luxembourg, Ms. Anne Goedert... Estonia, Ms. Triinu Kallas... Russian Federation, Mr. Evgeny Ustinov... Turkey, Mr. Ali Naci Koru... Lao People?s Democratic Republic, Mr. Kittiphone Sayaphet... Ireland, Ms. Amy Sheils... Belarus, Mr. Andrei Taranda... Maldives, Ms. Hala Hameed... United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ms. Miriam Shearman... Viet Nam, Ms. Le Duc Hanh... Human Rights Now, Mr. Nicolas Torres Vieira... Amnesty International, Ms. Laura Haigh... International Federation for Human Rights Leagues, Ms. Manon Karatas... Lawyers? Rights Watch Canada, Ms. Helene Ramos Dos Santos... Alliance Defending Freedom, Ms. Mariam Gomez de Aguero... Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Ms. Khin Ohmar... International-Lawyers.Org, Ms. Jennifer D. Tapia... Human Rights Watch, Mr. John Fischer... Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Ms. Claire Denman... Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of HR in Myanmar (Final Remarks).
Source/publisher: UN Human Rights Council
2018-06-27
Date of entry/update: 2018-06-28
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Description: SPEAKERS: Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of HR in Myanmar (Introduction)... Myanmar (Concerned Country), Mr. Htin Lynn... European Union, Mr. Peter Sorensen... Canada, Ms. Rosemary Mccarney... Poland, Mr. Zbigniew Czech... Thailand, Mr. Sek Wannamethee... Czech Republic, Mr. Michal Kaplan... Japan, Ms. Mitsuko Shino... Sweden, Ms. Veronika Bard... Belgium, Mr. Karl Dhaene... Iraq, Mr. Yahya Ibraheem Fadhil Al-Obaidi... Germany, Mr. Gunnar Schneider... France, Mr. Francois Gave... Australia, Ms. Sally Mansfield... Denmark, Mr. Carsten Staur... Norway, Mr. Kjetil Elsebutangen... Netherlands, Ms. Marianne de Jong... OIC, Mr. Rashid Al Balushi... Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ms. Alyaa Ihsan Abbood Alsayegh... Liechtenstein, Mr. Claudio Silvio Nardi... Republic of Korea, Mr. Jang-Keun Lee... Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of HR in Myanmar (Comments and Answers) Saudi Arabia, Mr. Fahad Obaydullah Almutairi Indonesia, Mr. Irwansyah Mukhlis New Zealand, Ms. Katy Diane Donnelly... Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Mr. Edgardo Toro Carreño... Mexico, Ms. Emilia Hernández Martínez... China, Mr. Zhang Sisi.
Source/publisher: UN Human Rights Council
2018-06-27
Date of entry/update: 2018-06-28
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Description: 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)
2018-06-27
Date of entry/update: 2018-06-27
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Description: "NAYPYITAW — The government will not respond to a request that the International Criminal Court (ICC) consider opening a case over the alleged deportation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh, government spokesman U Zaw Htay said. ?The ICC has nothing to do with Myanmar. Whatever [steps toward] prosecution the ICC has made, Myanmar has no reason to respond,” U Zaw Htay told The Irrawaddy on Friday. The President?s Office called the ICC?s demand a deliberate attempt to increase international attention and pressure on the Myanmar government. It said the ICC?s demand is not in line with international law, rules, regulations or procedures. In a decision published on Thursday, the ICC asked Myanmar to respond by July 27 to a request made in April that the ICC exercise jurisdiction over the alleged crimes. The ICC asked Myanmar to submit its views on the court?s jurisdiction and the circumstances surrounding the movement of Rohingya across the border into Bangladesh..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy"
2018-06-25
Date of entry/update: 2018-06-26
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Description: Related documents: 07 May 2018, Decision Inviting the Competent Authorities of the People?s Republic of Bangladesh to Submit Observations pursuant to Rule 103(1) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence on the ?Prosecution?s Request for a Ruling on Jurisdiction under Article 19(3) of the (0.36 MB | 5 Pages) ICC-RoC46(3)-01/18-3 | Pre-Trial Chamber I 11 April 2018, Decision assigning the ?Prosecution?s Request for a Ruling on Jurisdiction under Article 19(3) of the Statute” to Pre-Trial Chamber I (0.39 MB | 4 Pages) ICC-RoC46(3)-01/18-2 | President of the Pre-Trial Division 09 April 2018, Prosecution?s Request for a Ruling on Jurisdiction under Article 19(3) of the Statute (0.86 MB | 31 Pages) ICC-RoC46(3)-01/18-1 | Office of the Prosecutor
Source/publisher: International Criminal Court (ICC)
2018-06-21
Date of entry/update: 2018-06-24
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Description: ICC gives Myanmar until July 27 to respond to a request on whether it should exercise jurisdiction over alleged crimes.
Source/publisher: Aljazeera
2018-06-24
Date of entry/update: 2018-06-24
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