ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar military regime chief
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Karim Khan promises further arrests will be pursued in bid for justice and accountability by persecuted Rohingya.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has requested an international arrest warrant for the military ruler of Myanmar for the persecution of Rohingya.
The office of prosecutor Karim Khan said on Wednesday that Min Aung Hlaing, chief of the military regime that took control of the Southeast Asian country in a coup in 2021, is responsible for crimes against humanity regarding the treatment of the Rohingya minority.
The prosecutor’s office has been investigating alleged crimes committed during 2016-17 violence in the country’s state of Rakhine for the past five years, it said.
At that time, the Myanmar military unleashed a brutal crackdown on Rohingya civilians, sending at least 700,000 fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh amid reports of killings, torture, rape and arson.
Military chief Min Aung Hlaing “bears criminal responsibility for the crimes against humanity of deportation and persecution of the Rohingya, committed in Myanmar, and in part in Bangladesh”, the prosecutor’s office said.
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