Prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Wednesday (Nov 27) they would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar's military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity over the alleged persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority.
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00:00Prosecutors in the International Criminal Court said on Wednesday they will seek an
00:08arrest warrant for Myanmar's military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, for crimes against humanity.
00:14They said the Mayanmese general should be responsible for the persecution of the Rohingya
00:19community in the country.
00:21After an extensive investigation and careful review of the evidence collected, my office
00:26has concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Senior General and Acting
00:32President Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Defence Services, bears criminal
00:39responsibility for the crimes against humanity of deportation and persecution of the Rohingya
00:45committed in Myanmar and in part of Bangladesh between the 25th of August 2017 and the 31st
00:54of December 2017 by members of the armed forces of Myanmar, the Tatmadaw, supported
01:00by the police, border guard, police, as well as non-Rohingya civilians.
01:04This is the first application for an arrest warrant against a high-level Myanmar government
01:10official that my office is filing.
01:14More will follow.
01:16They said they welcome support from parties in the South Asia and Southeast Asia regions
01:21considering that the crisis in Myanmar has profound effects across the regions.
01:26A million Rohingya people fled to neighboring Bangladesh and other Southeast Asian nations
01:31to escape Myanmar's military offensive in what international investigators describe
01:35as ethnic cleansing.
01:37They allege security forces and Buddhist residents razed villages in Myanmar's Rakhine state,
01:43but the Mayanmese government had denied the allegations, saying that they were carrying
01:47out operations against those who attacked security posts.
02:18The Rohingya community said they had been suffering from the operation by the Mayanmese
02:24forces for the past eight years and they hope to see justice being served and they get to
02:28return to their homes.
02:31Judges in the world court will now decide if they agree there are reasonable grounds
02:35to believe the Mayanmese general was responsible for the crimes.
02:39There is no set time frame for their decision, but it usually takes around three months to
02:44rule on issuing an arrest warrant.