UN report of genocide in Mayanmar and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's complacency

A UN report by the UN Human Rights Council has called for war crimes charges, to which the report refers as genocide, against Mayanmar military leaders and has criticized Mayanmar State Counsellor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, of complacency in their crimes. It also accuses Facebook of being an instrument used in spreading hate and calls for investigations into the extent inwhich posts and messages therin have led to "real-world discrimination and violence."

In assessing the charge of genocide, the report first defines it, "genocide occurs when a person commits a prohibited act with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such. The Rohingya are a protected group under this definition. Their treatment by the Myanmar security forces, acting in concert with certain civilians, includes conduct which amounts to four of the five defined prohibited acts; (a) killing, (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm, (c) inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group in whole or in part, and (d) imposing measures intending to prevent births."

It goes on to explain the genocidal intent of the crimes committed in Rakhine State saying that, "the crimes in Rakhine State, and the manner in which they were perpetrated, are similar in nature, gravity and scope to those that have allowed genocidal intent to be established in other contexts. Factors pointing at such intent include the broader oppressive context and hate rhetoric; specific utterances of commanders and direct perpetrators; exclusionary policies, including to alter the demographic composition of Rakhine State; the level of organization indicating a plan for destruction; and the extreme scale and brutality of the violence."

The report also explains its charges of crimes against humanity, "On the basis of information gathered, the Mission finds that crimes against humanity have been committed in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, principally by the Tatmadaw. For Kachin and Shan States, these include crimes against humanity of murder; imprisonment; enforced disappearance; torture; rape, sexual slavery and other forms of
sexual violence; persecution; and enslavement. In Rakhine State, these and additional crimes against humanity were committed. The elements of extermination and deportation are also present, and the systematic oppression and discrimination not only supports a finding of persecution, but may also amount to the crime of apartheid. For both northern Myanmar and Rakhine State, the acts were committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack on a civilian population," and war crimes, "Given the Mission’s consideration that non-international armed conflicts existed in Kachin and Shan States (for the entire period under review) and in Rakhine State at least since August 2017, much of the conduct which gives rise to crimes against humanity will also satisfy the war crime elements of murder; torture; cruel treatment; outrages upon personal dignity; attacking civilians; displacing civilians; pillaging; attacking protected objects; taking hostages; sentencing or execution without due process; as well as rape, sexual slavery, and sexual violence. Certain acts committed by EAOs and ARSA may also constitute war crimes.
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It's interesting that the report finds that these actions may also amount to the crime of apartheid.

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/FFM-Myanmar/A_HRC_39_64.pdf

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-un/myanmar-generals-had-genocidal-intent-against-rohingya-must-face-justice-u-n-idUSKCN1LC0KN

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45318982


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6102387/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-blasted-failing-stop-genocide-against-Rohingya-Myanmar.html