U.N.'s Zeid toughens warning of 'genocide' in Myanmar

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U.N.'s Zeid toughens warning of 'genocide' in Myanmar

 

FILE PHOTO - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein of Jordan speaks during a news conference at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, May 1, 2017. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy

 

GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official has said he would not be surprised if a court one day ruled that acts of genocide had been committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, according to a television interview to be shown on Monday.

 

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told the BBC that attacks on the Rohingya had been "well thought out and planned" and he had asked Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi to do more to stop the military action.

 

Zeid has already called the campaign "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" and asked rhetorically if anyone could rule out "elements of genocide", but his latest remarks put the case plainly, toughening his stance.

 

“The elements suggest you cannot rule out the possibility that acts of genocide have been committed,” he said, according to excerpts of his interview provided in advance by the BBC.

 

“It’s very hard to establish because the thresholds are high,” he said. “But it wouldn’t surprise me in the future if the court were to make such a finding on the basis of what we see.”

 

Myanmar denies committing atrocities against the Rohingya and has previously rejected U.N. criticism for its "politicisation and partiality". The Myanmar military says the crackdown is a legitimate counter-insurgency operation.

 

Zeid said Myanmar's "flippant" response to the serious concerns of the international community made him fear the current crisis “could just be the opening phases of something much worse”.

 

He told the BBC he feared jihadi groups could form in the huge refugee camps in Bangladesh and even launch attacks in Myanmar, perhaps targeting Buddhist temples there.

 

He did not say, in the excerpts provided, which court could prosecute suspected atrocities. Myanmar is not a member of the International Criminal Court, so referral to that court could be done only by the U.N. Security Council. But Myanmar's ally China could veto such a referral.

 

The United Nations defines genocide as acts meant to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group in whole or in part. Such a designation is rare under international law, but has been used in contexts including Bosnia, Sudan and an Islamic State campaign against the Yazidi communities in Iraq and Syria.

 

Almost 870,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh, including about 660,000 who arrived after Aug. 25, when Rohingya militants attacked security posts and the Myanmar army launched a counter-offensive.

 

U.N. investigators have heard Rohingya testimony of a "consistent, methodical pattern of killings, torture, rape and arson".

 

Zeid said he had phoned Suu Kyi in January, asking her in vain to stop the military operation.

 

Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi’s less than two-year old civilian government has faced heavy international criticism for its response to the crisis, though it has no control over the generals it has to share power with under Myanmar’s transition after decades of military rule.

 

(Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Adrian Croft)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-12-18

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The guy is a Muslim from a country with an abysmal human rights record. 

Maybe he should think about stopping the refugee camps from being centres for terrorist recruitment and training (since 2009), leading to attacks in India as well as Myanmar. 

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/state-department-notes-linkage-of-rohingya-to-terrorist-group/

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Many are calling this a genocide. Most are NOT Muslim. 

 

Time for something to be done and help these poor people. 

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4 hours ago, craigt3365 said:

Many are calling this a genocide. Most are NOT Muslim. 

 

Time for something to be done and help these poor people. 

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/06/bangladesh-indigenous-peoples-engulfed-chittagong-hill-tracts-land-conflict/
 You won't know about this nor that it is Chittagoninas ('Rohingya') that are doing it. They were doing the same thing in Rakhine.

A genocide used to mean something like what happened to the Jews. It isn't. 

I too am sorry for these people. It's not their fault that they refused to learn Burmese or integrate, were bullies, stole land, raped and murdered, attacked temples of both Hindus and Buddhists, launched the biggest terrorist attack of the 21st century on 25 August.  They have killed A LOT MORE Buddhists since 1942 than were killed recently. 

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12 hours ago, cooked said:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/06/bangladesh-indigenous-peoples-engulfed-chittagong-hill-tracts-land-conflict/
 You won't know about this nor that it is Chittagoninas ('Rohingya') that are doing it. They were doing the same thing in Rakhine.

A genocide used to mean something like what happened to the Jews. It isn't. 

I too am sorry for these people. It's not their fault that they refused to learn Burmese or integrate, were bullies, stole land, raped and murdered, attacked temples of both Hindus and Buddhists, launched the biggest terrorist attack of the 21st century on 25 August.  They have killed A LOT MORE Buddhists since 1942 than were killed recently. 

Why wouldn't I know about this?  I was just there!  And spent some time in these villages. 

 

Refused to integrate?  We bullies?  Seriously?  You've got a warped sense of how these things have played out.

 

Here's a pic of me with one of these indigenous people on my last trip to this exact area.

 

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 Oh, a tourist.

The fact that most of them can't speak Burmese makes me suspect that the so called "Rohingya' don't want to integrate. Hindus came along at the same time as the Bengalis and they also are suffering at the hands of these people. They can be said to have integrated, they have learnt the language and don't cause problems.

I said you wouldn't know about Chittagong as you seem to think that the Bengalis in Myanmar and Chittagong are virtuous, innocent people unjustly persecuted. 

I have a whole list of massacres perpetrated by the Bengalis in Rakhine since 1942, a list of rapes, kidnappings and murders recently and since 25 August. In 1971 500 000+ Bengalis fled Bangladesh (about two million went to India where they are also making themselves unwelcome. At the same time about two million Hindus were killed). Along with subsequent illegal crossings and a high birthrate, that will easily make over a million illegals.

The 'Rohingyas' so called cause trouble everywhere they go, at the same time I do realise that they have been used as a tool and then cast away by people with an agenda of hate. ISIS is organising terrorist training camps in Cox's Bazaar, and have been since 2009, I suppose you think the Burmese should just stand and watch. Their intention is very obvious.

What's this 'we bullies?' business? Have you taken up Islam, or Bengali citizenship?  You were a 100% American native tribal chief in another post. Are you suffering from trans-racialism?