{"id":120975,"date":"2018-10-29T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=120975"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:52:11","slug":"despite-diverted-attention-ongoing-genocide-of-rohingya-happening-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/10\/despite-diverted-attention-ongoing-genocide-of-rohingya-happening-in-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Diverted Attention, \u2018Ongoing Genocide\u2019 of Rohingya Happening in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"

China and Russia are sure to prevent any sanctions or arms embargoes against Myanmar.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Rohingya refugees gather near the fence in the “no man’s land” zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh border as seen from Maungdaw, Rakhine state during a government-organized visit for journalists on August 24, 2018. Phyo Hein Kyaw\/AFP\/\/Getty Images.<\/p><\/div>\n

25 Oct 2018 – Over a year after the government of Myanmar started its brutal crackdown against the Muslim minority Rohingya, the killings are continuing.<\/p>\n

In a tense U.N. Security Council briefing on Wednesday [24 Oct] night, Marzuki\u00a0Darusman, chair of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, reminded reporters<\/a> that the killing of Muslim minority Rohingya is \u201can ongoing genocide that is taking place.\u201d<\/p>\n

British U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce added, \u201cThe crimes we have heard echo those committed in Rwanda and Srebrenica some twenty years ago. The Security Council acted in those two situations. It acted too late to prevent them which is all to our lasting shame but it did act to ensure accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took the U.N. months to even call the massacres \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d before a horrific mountain of evidence compelled it to use the more serious (and criminal) term for what\u2019s happening: A genocide.<\/p>\n

More: One year and 10,000 Rohingya deaths later, UN accuses Myanmar of \u2018genocide\u2019 – The United Nations is calling out Myanmar’s military for its horrific, sustained crackdown on the country’s Muslim minority.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

China, with the support of Russia, tried to stop the U.N. briefing from happening at all. Myanmar has strong business ties<\/a> with China<\/a>, which has repeatedly<\/a> voiced its support<\/a> for Myanmar.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu said the U.N. Security Council shouldn\u2019t \u201cget involved in country-specific human rights issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since August 2017, when Rohingya insurgents launched a deadly attack on border police posts, the military has unleashed an unrelenting campaign of violence that has seen thousands of Rohingya killed, hundreds of their villages burned, and over 700,000 fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh, where they live in refugee camps.<\/p>\n

Survivors have spoken of being starved, raped, and watching their families \u2014 including children \u2014 shot, hacked, or burned to death.<\/p>\n

Prior this campaign, some 1.1 million Rohingya lived in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where they had virtually no rights and no freedom of movement. They are often referred to as \u201cBengalis\u201d and aren\u2019t even named by officials there, who claim they don\u2019t exist as a ethnicity.<\/p>\n

Darusman said that the Rohingya who remain in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state are \u201cat grave risk\u201d and any kind of repatriation of those who have fled \u201cis tantamount to condemning them to life as sub-humans and further mass killing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, returning Rohingya before there is any kind of process to ensure their safety and their basic human rights would only serve to give Myanmar the license to finish the job.<\/p>\n

More: Facebook finally takes action in Myanmar, 10 months after genocidal crackdown began – Since October, Facebook has been consistently accused of doing nothing to help stop hate speech against the minority group.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The U.N. inquiry\u2019s report called for an arms embargo on and sanctions against\u00a0 Myanmar, as well as creating a tribunal to try suspects or forward them to the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

China and Russia will likely veto any attempt at sanctions and arms embargoes.<\/p>\n

Myanmar rejects the findings presented by the U.N. report, with its U.N. Ambassador Hau Do Suan saying the government is \u201cwilling and able to take on the accountability issues for any alleged human rights violation where there is sufficient evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 thinkprogress.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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