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| Suu Kyi & six others |
Star Online Report
A lawyer today
served legal notice to the prosecution of International Crimes Tribunal to
prosecute Aung San Suu Kyi for “genocide and crime against humanity” in
Myanmar.
Supreme Court lawyer
Mohammad Delwar Hossain also sought investigation into alleged genocide and
crime against humanity against Suu Kyi and six other Myanmar officials.
Six other officials
of Myanmar are – Senior General Min AungHIaing, commander in chief of armed
forces, Lt Gen KyawSwe, union minister for home affairs, NaiThetLwin, union
minister of ethnic affairs, Lt Gen Ye Aung, union minister of border affairs,
General Zaw Win, chief of national police, and Monk Ashin Wirathu, Leader of
‘969 Movement’ currently representing Ma Ba Tha (Committee for the protection
of Nationality and Religion), according to the legal notice.
Delwar Hossain sent
the legal notice through Advocate Yousuf Ali yesterday saying that he will seek
relief in appropriate court, if the chief prosecutor of ICT does not take steps
to investigate into the seven Myanmar leaders for the offence of “Genocide and
Crime against humanity perpetrated against the ethnic minority group of Rhingya
in the vicinity of Magndow Township of the Republic of Union of Myanmar” within
seven days.
He said in the legal
notice that CNN and Al Jazeera reported that the Rohingyas were being raped
tortured or saw their homes burned down and family members executed.
The ongoing attacks
of the Myanmar government, military, police and security forces on and
persecutions of the Rohingya population in Myanmar constitute genocide as
defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (the Genocide Convention) which is ratified by both Bangladesh and
Myanmar, he said in the legal notice, adding that the Convention declares that
genocide is a crime under the international law.
The legal notice
said, “The State Bangladesh had an ‘erga omnes obligation’ under genocide
convention to bring end to the crime against humanity. Therefore to discharge
that obligation the state has promulgated the International Crimnes (Tribunals)
Act 1973 (the ICT) making provision of the setting up of the tribunals for the
prosecution and trial of the perpetrators of the international crimes including
the crime against humanity”.