Int’l community should play role on Rohingya crisis: Momen

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Masud Bin Momen on Monday said that international community, including United Nations Security Council (UNSC), has the duty to identify the responsibility behind the ethnic cleansing which has been stated by the High Commissioner of UNHCR.

"UNHCR High Commissioner termed the violence in Rakhine state of Myanmar as the 'text book example of ethnic cleaning’, international community including the UNSC has the duty to identify the responsibility of this," he said.

Momen on Monday made the statement while participating in a discussion on a report of International Criminal Court (ICC) at UN General Assembly, according to a message received here from Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations.

He said that the ongoing violence and forcibly displacing people from their home by the Myanmar security forces in Rakhine state taking the chance of new democracy in the country put the Rome Statue of International Criminal Court (ICC) in more important place.

Momen stated the statement of UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng on the situation in northern Rakhine state.

In the statement, Adama Dieng mentioned that the brutality in Myanmar can be treated as mass killing, crime against humanity and war crime.

The Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN said that Bangladesh always put importance on the sexual crime during the war and its proper trial. 

“Bangladesh always ready to share its experience the trial of rape and sexual crime during the great Liberation War in 1971 with the ICC,” he said.

At the beginning of the discussion, the chairman of ICC Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi placed the last one year’s activities of his organisation.

Currently, ICC is investigating in 10 cases and discussing about victim support and compensation for four cases.

Source: unb