Human rights mission in Myanmar finds “untenable suffering”
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Reported human rights violations committed by government forces in Myanmar against Rohingyas will likely constitute “crimes under international law”.
That’s according to the Chairperson of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, Marzuki Darusman, who on Monday called on authorities to stop dismissing reports that serious human rights violations have been committed in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine states.
The former Indonesian Attorney-General said that “any denial of the seriousness of the situation in Rakhine” and victims’ suffering “is untenable”.
More than 600,000 mainly Muslim Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh since August.
Hundreds of eyewitness accounts, photographs and satellite images show villages flattened by bulldozers, erasing all remaining traces of the life and community that once was.
Mr. Darusman spoke to Bronwen Cowley following the release of the Mission’s report in Geneva.
Reported rights violations committed by government forces in Myanmar against Rohingyas will likely constitute “crimes under international law”, according to the Chairperson of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, Marzuki Darusman.
Speaking to Bronwen Cowley in Geneva, following the release of the Mission’s report, Mr. Darusman called on authorities to stop dismissing the seriousness of rights abuse allegations.