The demand to bring the Myanmar perpetrators, who committed atrocities on Rohingyas, to justice is growing.
Different nations, international organizations, lawmakers and civil societies across the world want a trial of Myanmar generals and their accomplices who conducted ethnic cleansing, if not genocide.
An estimated 25,000 Rohingyas were murdered and 36,000 were thrown into a fire by Myanmar military from Aug 25 last year when it started its crackdown on the most persecuted population in the world.
Over 36,000 orphans and more than 60,000 pregnant women many of whom are rape victims fled to Bangladesh in the last one year.
A senior government official said, “We are aware of it and fully endorse it.”
Bangladesh has already given a reply to the International Criminal Court endorsing its jurisdiction to try the deportation from Myanmar, which is not a party to the statute body, he said.
We hope that the trial would begin at the ICC sooner than later, he added.
He said 132 lawmakers from ASEAN countries have already raised their voices for accountability and Washington has already started to impose the sanction on individuals and military units, which
Another official said, Dhaka is pursuing another mechanism under the United Nations to collect evidence against the Myanmar perpetrators.
The UN General Assembly has already established International Impartial Independent Mechanism (IIIM) to assist in the investigation and prosecution of persons responsible for the most serious crimes under International Law committed in the Syrian.
“We are working with two influential countries to establish IIIM for Myanmar under the UN system,” he said.
This IIIM will neither a prosecutor’s office nor a court, but collects and analyses information and evidence of international crimes committed in Myanmar to assist criminal proceedings in national, regional or international courts or tribunals that have or may in the future have jurisdiction over these crimes, he added.