Today I’ve sent a letter to the Foreign Secretary signed by over 100 Parliamentarians calling for an ICC referral for Myanmar’s military general Min Aung Hlaing. The United Nations has now documented more than 688,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh since the Myanmar military began their offensive against Rohingya civilians in August 2017. Médecins Sans Frontières have recently documented almost 7,000 Rohingya civilians killed in just one month last year, including 730 children. They believe this figure is likely to be significantly higher than their initial estimates.
Thousands of Rohingya women have also been raped by the military, security forces and by mobs and militias supported by the military. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights described what is happening to the Rohingya people as a military campaign in which “you cannot rule out the possibility that acts of genocide have been committed”.
There must be accountability for the horrific crimes committed against the Rohingya people. It is time for the British government to unequivocally state that the situation in Myanmar should be referred to the International Criminal Court. Read the full letter below:
