Office of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor is committed to ensure justice of the sufferings of Rohingya people.

“It is the commitment from the prosecutor, that is the commitment from her staff and that is what we are driving for,” said Phakiso Mochochoko, ICC Director.

He was speaking at a press conference after concluding "preliminary examination" in Bangladesh for the last one week.

The investigation will be challenging, there is no doubt, but the prosecutor, her office and staff are committed to ensuring that this process needs to have its natural end, he said.

The prosecutor is bound or intended to ensure that the accountability is done and those who are responsible for these atrocities are brought to account, he added.

Mochochoko said there is no doubt from the fact that Rohingya people suffered and they suffered atrocities.

The question now for the prosecutor is to attribute accountability to these people who are responsible for it, he said.

We need to find out the people who are responsible, the people who gave instructions, the people who are commanders, the people who did all other things and facilitated the commission of this crime, he added.

The ICC director said Myanmar is not party to Rome Statute but it does not prevent the organistaion from continuing the process..

The ICC process is not about Myanmar, it’s about individual criminal responsibility, he said.

“It has nothing to do with Myanmar as a country or state.”

He said the purpose of this mission was to do an operational assessment and they will submit report to the prosecutor.

The legal assessment and the legal criteria are continuing independently and separately, he said.

If the legal criteria like question of jurisdiction, complimentarily, gravity of situation as well as interest of justice are met then we will proceed for investigation, he added.

When asked how long it would take, he said, “It will take as long as necessary but not necessarily long.

When asked about the visit of Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to Bangladesh, he said, it is a normal practice of the prosecutor to visit the situation country but right there is no such plan as we are at the very early stage of the process.