{"id":43386,"date":"2024-11-27T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=43386"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:32:19","slug":"icc-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-warrant-for-myanmar-military-leader-over-rohingya-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=43386","title":{"rendered":"ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar military leader over Rohingya campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)    THE HAGUE, Nov 27 &#8211; The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Wednesday he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar&#8217;s military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity in the alleged persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Myanmar&#8217;s ruling junta did not answer calls from Reuters immediately after the announcement. Reuters has requested comment from the military government by email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A million Rohingya fled, most to neighboring Bangladesh, to escape a Myanmar military offensive launched in August 2017, a campaign that U.N. investigators have described as a text book example of ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soldiers, police, and Buddhist villagers are alleged by U.N. investigators to have razed hundreds of villages in the remote western Rakhine state, torturing residents as they fled, carrying out mass-killings and gang-rapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Myanmar has denied the allegations, saying security forces were carrying out legitimate operations against militants who attacked police posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than one million refugees now live in squalor in camps in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecutor&#8217;s step marked a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/reactions-icc-prosecutors-warrant-request-myanmar-military-leader-2024-11-27\/\">rare day of celebration<\/a>&nbsp;for the Rohingya, said Tun Khin, president of Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK. &#8220;We have finally taken another step towards justice and accountability,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) THE HAGUE, Nov 27 &#8211; The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Wednesday he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar&#8217;s military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity in the alleged persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority. A spokesperson for Myanmar&#8217;s ruling junta did not answer calls from Reuters immediately after the announcement. Reuters has requested comment from the military government by email. A million Rohingya fled, most to neighboring Bangladesh, to escape a Myanmar military offensive launched in August 2017, a campaign that U.N. investigators have described as a text book&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43388,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43386\/revisions\/43388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}