New York, Aug. 25 (BNA): Kuwait has urged the
international community to bring to account culprits of massacres against
Myanmar’s Rohingya noting that the Muslim refugees cannot abandon squalid camp
life and return home in shadow of fears and insecurity.
“Genocides perpetrated in Myanmar: Where do
we stand with regard of accountability?” was title of a statement addressed by
the permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi, to a
Security Council session on Myanmar.
This session, held three years after
break-out of violence in the State of Rakhine, Myanmar, aims to shed light on
accountability as a main demand supposed to be heeded by the Government of
Myanmar, said Al-Otaibi during the session, co-organized by Kuwait, Germany and
Peru, according to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
Thousands from this community were killed in
widespread violence that also forced 742,000 Muslims to flee Myanmar to
neighboring Bangladesh spare themselves brutal attacks.
According to latest statistics by the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than one million Rohingya
refugees in Cox’s Bazar, a port city in southeastern Bangladesh.
Ambassador Al-Otaibi affirmed necessity that
the Security Council and the international community continue to advise Myanmar
that it must implement the relevant UNSC Presidential Statement and
recommendations of Kofi Annan’s Advisory Panel on Rakhine State.
The UN commission has called for cessation of
violence, improving security, ensuring delivery of humanitarian aid to the
violence-stricken regions in Rakhine and penalizing the culprits responsible
for the mass killing in the state.
Ambassador Al-Otaibi, who had visited the
Rohingya refugees at Cox’s Bazar camp along with a number of diplomats, said
the hairy narrations he had heard from the refugees were similar to UN reports
including those by an investigation panel, established by the Human Rights
Council.
He urged Myanmar to cooperate with the UNHCR,
praising its formation of a national probe panel but noted that it must
coordinate with the “mechanism” worked out by the Human Rights Council.
The senior Kuwaiti diplomat affirmed utter
necessity of speedy accountability and full cooperation with the UN in this
respect, indicating that failure to impose justice would lead to further
abusive acts and violence.
Rohingya refugees cannot return home in
shadow of lack of accountability and confidence in the local security
authorities, he noted, indicating that they would not favor going back home
where their life remained in danger for their current squalid living conditions
in the shanty towns in Bangladesh.