An international people's court found Myanmar guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people based on documentary evidence, expert testimony, and accounts from victims of atrocities against Rohingya and other minority groups in Myanmar. A seven-member panel concluded Myanmar had the intent to commit genocide against the Rohingya and Kachin people, and that the casualties of the genocide against the Rohingya could increase in the future if no action is taken.
An international people's court found Myanmar guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people based on documentary evidence, expert testimony, and accounts from victims of atrocities against Rohingya and other minority groups in Myanmar. A seven-member panel concluded Myanmar had the intent to commit genocide against the Rohingya and Kachin people, and that the casualties of the genocide against the Rohingya could increase in the future if no action is taken.
An international people's court found Myanmar guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people based on documentary evidence, expert testimony, and accounts from victims of atrocities against Rohingya and other minority groups in Myanmar. A seven-member panel concluded Myanmar had the intent to commit genocide against the Rohingya and Kachin people, and that the casualties of the genocide against the Rohingya could increase in the future if no action is taken.
An international people's court found Myanmar guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people based on documentary evidence, expert testimony, and accounts from victims of atrocities against Rohingya and other minority groups in Myanmar. A seven-member panel concluded Myanmar had the intent to commit genocide against the Rohingya and Kachin people, and that the casualties of the genocide against the Rohingya could increase in the future if no action is taken.
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Myanmar found guilty of genocide
International peoples court delivers verdict:
Star Report Myanmar is guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people, according to the verdict of International Permanent Peoples Tribunal. A seven-member panel announced the verdict yesterday after considering documentary and expert evidence as well as the testimony of some victims of the atrocities committed against the Rohingya, Kachin and other minority groups in Myanmar reports The Star Online of Malaysia.
Head judge Daniel Feierstein, who founded
the Centre for Genocide Studies in Argentina, read out the findings following five days of hearing held at the moot court of the law faculty of University of Malaya.
On the strength of the evidence presented,
the tribunal reached the consensus ruling that Myanmar has the intent to commit genocide against the Kachin and other groups, the tribunal said. The State of Myanmar is guilty of the crime of genocide against the Rohingya group..the casualties of that genocide could be even higher in the future if nothing is done to stop it, it added.
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