Yemnei Tawakkol Karman demanded resignation of Aung San
Suu Kyi
Dhaka Tribune
Three Nobel Peace laureates have visited the Rohingya
camp on Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar on Sunday. The three laureates are Shirin Ebadi
from Iran, Tawakkol Karman from Yemen, and Mairead Maguire from the UK.
Upon visiting the Kutupalong camp, they spoke to five
Rohingya women who underwent physical torture under the Myanmar army, and also
asked about the welfare of the Rohingyas living in the camp.
After listening to the horrific accounts of brutal
torture at the hands of the Myanmar military from the Rohingyas, in a tearful
interview, Mairead Maguire said: “This is a slaughter of the innocence of the
Rohingya people.”
Terming the brutality of the Myanmar military as a
“genocide” and “ethnic cleansing”, Maguire demanded that the military be taken
to the international court of justice. She appealed to Aung San Suu Kyi, the
Myanmar leader, to stop denying the Rohingya people their right to life.
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On the other hand, Tawakkol Karman expressed her anger
and shame at Aung San Suu Kyi’s tolerance of violence committed by the Myanmar
security forces, and demanded her resignation if she could not stop these
crimes.
“We, the Nobel laureates, call for these criminals to be
persecuted in the international criminal court,” said Karman. “We don’t hope
our sister laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to be one of them. But in the future, if
she continues her silence, she will be one of them.”
Later, she also thanked the Bangladeshi people for their
hospitality but appealed to the government of Bangladesh, the UN, and the international
community to facilitate better basic survival services for water, health and
education for the Rohingyas.
Around 700,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh
since August 25.