Impunity is not an option for the Rohingya

This appeared in The Millennial Source

The Rohingya exodus of 2017 was one in a number of displacements prompted by abuses inflicted by Myanmar’s military.

On September 15, the International Criminal Court in The Hague opened a preliminary examination into Myanmar’s alleged crimes against its Rohingya minority. The initial probe, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensoude said, could lead to a formal investigation focusing on “coercive acts” resulting in the “forced displacement” of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, acts that might include “deprivation of fundamental rights, killing, sexual violence, enforced disappearance, destruction and looting.”

Hours earlier, United Nations investigators presented a 444-page report detailing apparent violations committed by Myanmar military against the Rohingya, a report the Myanmar ambassador to the UN called “one-sided” and “flawed.”

According to Amnesty International, more than 750,000 Rohingya refugees crossed into Bangladesh in 2017 after Myanmar forces attacked the minority Muslim community, a migration Jewish World Watch has called “one of the greatest mass exoduses in human history,” second only in recent years to the Rwandan displacement.

Doctors Without Borders estimates that at least 6,700 Rohingya, including 730 children…