NAYPYIDAW – Myanmar’s army chief has expressed that the United Nations has no right to interfere in the sovereignty of the country in response to the calls made by the global body for the probe of “genocide” against the Rohingya minority.
The response is the army chief’s first public reaction after a UN fact-finding mission urged the Security Council to refer Myanmar’s top military brass to the International Criminal Court (ICC) including Min Aung Hlaing.
“Myanmar’s top military generals, including Commander-in-Chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing, must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide in the north of Rakhine State, as well as for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States,” a UN-backed fact-finding mission had said.
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Addressing the troops in a speech on Sunday, the military commander expressed that talks to meddle in internal affairs [cause] misunderstanding.
UN investigators lifted the lid on the atrocities allegedly committed by army troops last year in their operations against the Rohingya, which forced more than 700,000 of the stateless Muslims to cross the border into Bangladesh.
Troops, often assisted by ethnic Rakhine mobs, committed murder, rape, arson and torture, employing unfathomable levels of violence and with a total disregard for human life, the Un officials concluded.
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On the other hand, the military denies nearly all wrongdoing, justifying its crackdown as a legitimate means of rooting out Rohingya militants.
Myanmar’s civilian government, steered by Aung San Suu Kyi, had already branded the report’s finding as ‘one-sided’ and ‘flawed’, dismissing a separate decision at the criminal court that found it had jurisdiction over the crisis.
The UN team also criticised the Nobel Laureate’s government for “acts and omissions” that had “contributed to the commission of atrocity crimes”.
