Arakan News Agency
Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has called on the international community to try Myanmar’s prime minister and military leaders in an international tribunal on charges of war crimes.
Ebadi said in a statement to the Anadolu that the crimes committed against the Muslims of Arakan province in Myanmar, up to the level of war crimes, noting that the Rohingya have been subjected to 40 years of slow genocide.
“I went to Bangladesh with two human rights activists, Northern Irishwoman Mairead Maguire and Yemenite Tawakkol Karman, and we met with 100 Rohingya women, some of them raped and others saw rape with their own eyes,” said Ebadi, a human rights activist.
Ebadi confirmed that the rape and torture stories she heard from Rohingya women were a chilling incident.
She noted that she had received sufficient and detailed information on the massacres, grievances and practices outside the humanitarian values committed by Myanmar army forces against women, children, the elderly and youth in Arakan province.
“I will not talk about the injustices and tragedies that occurred in Arakan, because the media provided the world public with ample information about these massacres. I would like to say that most of the Myanmar army soldiers are Buddhists, and this army since the past to this day, are Anti-Islam. “
She added that Myanmar Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi has remained captive to the concept of Islamophobia, arguing that this concept has reinforced the Myanmar army’s defense of the country against “Islamic terrorism.”
Ebadi expressed displeasure at the refusal of Suu Kyi, who is also a Nobel Peace Prize winner, for the authenticity of documents proving that the Myanmar forces committed massacres against the Rohingya Muslims in Arakan.
“I think Suu Kyi’s rejection of the Arakan massacres is just as terrible as the systematic rape of women and their clothes in front of the eyes and on the streets. The UN envoy Pramila Patten has expressed dismay at Myanmar’s leader’s refusal of any crimes committed against Arakan residents “she said.
Ebadi stressed that Suu Kyi‘s commitment to silence about the crimes committed in Arakan province would carry moral and legal responsibility for what is happening in that region.
She also pointed out that French President Emmanuel Macron, described several days ago, what is happening in the province of Arakan genocide.
According to UN figures, some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled to Bangladesh, 60 per cent of them children, following a crackdown launched by the security forces on 25 August 2017, which the United Nations and the United States called “ethnic cleansing”.
