Yangon: Rohingya refugees are expelled from Myanmar in a bloody hard action must testify in court for the first time on Tuesday to urge judicial investigations full of allegations of war crimes committed against them.
The military campaign in Myanmar in 2017 was believed to have killed thousands and forced around 750,000 Muslim minority members to escape to refugee camps in Bangladesh, carrying rape accounts, murder and combustion.
Witnesses will testify remotely to court in Argentina, who are considering asking for the “Universal Jurisdiction” principle to bring cases against Myanmar leaders for genocide and crime against humanity.
The legal premise states that some actions – including war crimes and crimes against humanity – very terrible they are not specific to one country and can be tried anywhere.
The Argentina court has taken other universal jurisdiction cases in the past, including in connection with the Ex-Dictator Francis Franco government in Spain and the Falun Gong movement in China.
Proceedings against Myanmar and its leaders have been going on at the International Criminal Court and the United Nations International Justice Court.
But the trial Tuesday “would be the first time …
that Rohingya would have the opportunity to tell the court of all the atrocities they suffered”, the former UN special reporter about Myanmar Tomas Ojea told AFP.
Five survivors of sexual violence will testify to the federal criminal appeal court in Buenos Aires from a distance from refugee camps in Bangladesh, according to the Burma Rohingya activist group of British organizations.
“For decades, the Myanmar military has an impunity trying to wipe Rohingya as a person,” said Tun Khin, President Group, who filed a petition to the Argentine government to open this case.
“With Myanmar does not want and unable to investigate himself – especially since the coup – the international community must step and support all judicial efforts.” Myanmar denies the genocide, justifies the 2017 operation as a means of rohingya militant rooting.
The Myanmar public is largely unscrimically with the fate of Rohingya, while activists and journalists report problems faced by vitriolic abuse online.
After the military was accused of genocide, Aung San Suu Kyi’s civil leader went to Den Haag to defend the generals at the UN summit.
The month later they toppled him in the coup.
The country has conceded several soldiers may have used “disproportional” strength in the hard action of 2017, but confirms they will be investigated and demanded by the Myanmar criminal justice system.