Genocide continues in Myanmar, says UN researcher
Genocide continues in Myanmar, says UN researcher
UNITED NATIONS - US investigators said on Wednesday that Myanmar has continued its campaign of "genocide" against Rohingya Muslims who remain in the country, since for the first time the Security Council was informed by a human rights envoy in a specific country.
The evidence pointed to systematic crimes against humanity commanded by six senior army generals, the researchers said. The head of the Myanmar government, Aung San Suu Kyi, was also strongly criticized for not preventing the crimes and denying that they happened.
I know. U.S., USA The United States, France and other countries called for a public debate on human rights violations in Myanmar and a briefing by Marzuki Darusman, head of the United States fact-finding mission to the country. Russia and China tried to block the debate with the argument that human rights are outside the council's mandate.
"It is an ongoing genocide that is taking place at this time," said Mr. Darusman. "Myanmar presents precisely the kind of peace and security that the U.N. and, in particular, this council was created to address."
Mr. Darusman, in a speech drawn from the report of the investigation mission released in September, he said that the Rohingya population had suffered killings, torture and rape at the hands of the military and that high-ranking military generals had systematically ripped the minority group apart of their freedoms and forced them to work and move.
Mr. Darusman urged the council to refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court or create an ad hoc international tribunal, saying that responsibility at the national level was not available. He also recommended an arms embargo and specific sanctions against the six senior army officers who ordered the violations.
Mr. Darusman said that selective killings of the Rohingya minority may have stopped, but that Rohingya Muslims of up to 400,000 continue to face severe restrictions and repressions that constitute genocide. Those violations include causing serious bodily harm, inflicting conditions to harm an ethnic group and imposing measures to stop the birth.
This week marked the annual meeting at the University of the United States when country-specific human rights reports are submitted to the General Assembly committee that oversees human rights issues. The United States published reports on human rights violations in Iran, North Korea, Myanmar and the Palestinian territories. The briefing by the council on Myanmar sets the precedent for countries with serious rights records to be the subject of a council meeting.
China and Russia tried to block the information session of the Council because they meddled in the internal affairs of a country and that the report of the investigative mission was not objective.
A procedural vote was called and nine council members voted in favor of the debate, meeting the minimum requirement of nine of 15 votes for a meeting to be held. China and Russia will likely veto any council action on Myanmar.
Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United States, praised the attempt to take the matter to the council. "This is not just the Burma problem, this is the problem of the region, this is our problem, all of us," he said.
In accordance with the practice of the administration, he called the atrocities "ethnic cleansing" but not "genocide." He said "justice must be done", but he refrained from addressing the recommendation of a referral to the International Criminal Court or a court. The Trump administration has called the ICC useless and the United States is not a signatory.
A report from the State Department on Myanmar published in September paralleled the European Union report in its conclusions.
China's ambassador, Ma Zhaoxu, condemned the meeting and said it constituted "voluntary interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation."
Russia used the same argument it had deployed in the UN's independent investigation into Syria's use of chemical weapons. Vassily Nebenzia, his ambassador in the U., said that the report of the investigation mission was not credible because it was reported from outside the country.
Myanmar has refused to cooperate with US investigators. The UN Ambassador in Myanmar, Hau Do Suan, told the council that "Myanmar and nobody else will decide our history."
Write to Farnaz Fassihi in farnaz.fassihi@wsj.com
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