It is hearting to note that United States is going to impose strict sanctions against four of the Myanmar army’s top military leaders, including military chief Min Aung Hlaing and his deputy.
Aung San Suu Kyi, is deliberately trying to justify Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya saying that Myanmar had “placed an incomplete and misleading picture of the factual situation in Rakhine state.” On Tuesday the de facto leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, listened quietly in the audience of the United Nation's high court, as lawyers recounted the mass killing, rape and torture of Myanmar's Muslim minority Rohingya. But on Wednesday, Suu Kyi had her turn at the microphone, where she vigorously defended her country's government against accusations of genocide. We highly condemn Suu Kyi’s claim of no genocide and call on the international community not to believe the statements of Myanmar's ruling party leader in the International Court of Justice.
Rohingya families have faced patterns of unimaginable horrors in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Children and their parents have been systematically killed, maimed and raped. Despite the claims that these violations are under investigation and will be dealt with domestically, the government of Myanmar has failed at every turn to punish those responsible.
It is not only Myanmar that is on trial,
it’s our collective humanity that
is being put on trial in Hague
Aung San Suu Kyi did nothing to stop the killing. She could have asked for help from the international community at the time. And now, as the final insult, she’s defending the army’s behaviour in court.
It’s vital the Rohingya and other ethnic groups get the justice and protection they so desperately need and the violence and persecution in Rakhine comes to an end .The world can no longer accept Myanmar’s tactics of delay and diversion. Justice delayed is justice denied. The atrocity Suu Kyi’s Myanmar committed in Rakhaine state is a stain on our collective conscience. It’s not only the state of Myanmar that is on trial here, it’s humanity that is being put on trial in Hague.
