Episode: KPN 17-07-2022
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Responses to the Human Rights Council Resolution
The UN Human Rights Council has urged Myanmar to start repatriation programs for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh refugee camps. Human rights violations continue to occur in Myanmar, and the Human Rights Council unanimously approved the request for an international, independent and fair investigation of these violations without a vote. Masumon has gathered the responses and opinions of Rohingya activists and Rohingya refugees to the UN Human Rights Council’s decision on Myanmar, which was decided on July 7th.
On July 7, at the United Nations Human Rights Council, there was no need to vote on the Myanmar issue. It was unanimously approved. The main decisions were to urge Myanmar to start programs for the safe and dignified return of Rohingya refugees sheltering in Bangladesh refugee camps, and to call for an independent, fair, and transparent international investigation of these human rights violations.
Myanmar to fully cooperate with the United Nations. I am requesting that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights observe the implementation of the recommendations submitted by the Independent International Fact-Finding Commission. The Myanmar Military Council’s Foreign Ministry has responded that the UN Human Rights Council’s decision on the Myanmar issue cannot be accepted as it is unilateral without Myanmar.
U Tun Khin, the president of the Myanmar Rohingya Organization (UK) and the current leader of Argentina’s prosecution of the Myanmar military, commented on the request of the UN Human Rights Council to investigate human rights violations in Myanmar.
“I welcome this decision of the Human Rights Council. This is really the main point that Myanmar needs. This military coup council is committing atrocities against all minorities, including the Rohingya, and killing citizens every day, committing crimes. There is an urgent need for an international commission of inquiry into such human rights violations. On this side, we are trying to lobby countries such as EU, US, and UK. Mainly these countries also need a lot of support. The military coup council will deny all of these incidents, as they have previously denied committing crimes. I will deny it now, but we are working together with the minority activists, including the Rohingya, and the NUG Interim National Unity Government to push for this with a unified voice. There are plans to issue arrest warrants and arrest warrants through Interpol for the military group that committed this crime. In particular, it is also necessary to refer to the ICC from the UN Security Council. Now there is a case in the ICC regarding the Rohingya, and there is also a genocide case in the ICJ. They are facing many cases, so it is necessary to open such cases in other countries called Universal Jurisdiction. If it opens like that, they will be more and more banned from going internationally. We need to be able to arrest them wherever they go, and we hope to be able to do that.”
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been living in refugee camps in Bangladesh for more than five years, having suffered human rights violations so severe that the United States has officially designated it as genocide against the Rohingya. The Rohingya refugees welcome the UN Human Rights Council’s request to Myanmar to resume their repatriation programs when their repatriation is hopeless.
I don’t want to live in the refugee camps anymore. The Rohingya need to return home as soon as possible. The person who asked for the repatriation program to be started properly is Ko Aung Myain, a Rohingya refugee living in Kutu Palaung Refugee Camp No. 7 in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh.
“We are ready to return. We are ready to go back the next day since we arrived. But there is no one to call us. There is no one to take responsibility for us. We do not see any verification of the population statistics of more than 800,000 people from the Myanmar side to the Bangladesh side in five years. At the very least, if they are willing to call us, we need to verify that demographic at this time. Now, if we can’t even verify this demographic, will they really call us? We are in doubt as to whether or not it will be called. At the moment we can’t believe it. We want to return. There is no one to take responsibility for us. We are dignified, We are ready to return safely and we have requested that you call us as soon as possible. But so far, we have not seen anywhere to take responsibility for starting the issue of repatriation. There is no meeting with us. Nothing has been adjusted so far. If there is no adjustment with us, how will we be able to return? If they negotiate, we will do it again now.”
Ko Aung Myain, a Rohingya refugee living in Kutu Palaung Refugee Camp No. 7
“We are ready to return. We are ready to go back the next day since we arrived. But there is no one to call us. There is no one to take responsibility for us. We do not see any verification of the population statistics of more than 800,000 people from the Myanmar side to the Bangladesh side in five years. At the very least, if they are willing to call us, we need to verify that demographic at this time. Now, if we can’t even verify this demographic, will they really call us? We are in doubt as to whether or not it will be called. At the moment we can’t believe it. We want to return. There is no one to take responsibility for us. We are dignified, We are ready to return safely and we have requested that you call us as soon as possible. But so far, we have not seen anywhere to take responsibility for starting the issue of repatriation. There is no meeting with us. Nothing has been adjusted so far. If there is no adjustment with us, how will we be able to return? If they negotiate, we will do it again now.”
U Saw Myint, a resident of Balukkhali refugee camp No. 10 in Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh, also expressed the attitude of the Rohingya refugees who want to return home as soon as possible and to have full citizenship rights such as freedom of movement when they return home.
“Our attitude is clear. I am not asking for anything in particular. We want to return home as soon as possible. Everyone wants to go back. Everyone living in this Bangladeshi refugee camp wants to go back. Every Rohingya refugee wants to return. I think the Myanmar government will need to take positive actions for us. Number one is that these people who have been living in this IDP refugee camp for many years will have to take action to return to their homes as soon as possible. The number two point is the basic human rights of those who are in the Bangladesh refugee camp, freedom of movement, The right to freedom of education in accordance with civil rights; When they return to their hometowns, if international organizations and the international community give strong guarantees based on basic principles in accordance with human rights, we will all be the ones who will return to Myanmar as soon as possible.”
U Saw Myint, a resident of Balukkhali refugee camp No. 10
“Our attitude is clear. I am not asking for anything in particular. We want to return home as soon as possible. Everyone wants to go back. Everyone living in this Bangladeshi refugee camp wants to go back. Every Rohingya refugee wants to return. I think the Myanmar government will need to take positive actions for us. Number one is that these people who have been living in this IDP refugee camp for many years will have to take action to return to their homes as soon as possible. The number two point is the basic human rights of those who are in the Bangladesh refugee camp, freedom of movement, The right to freedom of education in accordance with civil rights; When they return to their hometowns, if international organizations and the international community give strong guarantees based on basic principles in accordance with human rights, we will all be the ones who will return to Myanmar as soon as possible.”
The Rohingya refugees are still worried about whether they will be able to provide solid security for the Rohingya refugees if they return to the military-occupied Myanmar.
On the Myanmar side, which does not accept the term Rohingya, it is said that the two countries, including the United Nations, are negotiating with Myanmar and Bangladesh to re-accept the Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh. Currently, the International Court of Justice (ICC) has announced that the International Court of Justice (ICC) will decide on Myanmar’s objection to the Gambia’s accusation of genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar on July 22.
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