The Mu’min Believer Organisation has launched a petition to take Myanmar’s defacto ruler Aung San Suu Kyi to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the genocide of Rohingya Muslims.
Hussein Mohamed and Najma Maxamed of London, UK, on behalf of the organisation said: “We have had a storm of footages and reports being validated through the media, governments, and the United Nation’s inspectors such as the ex-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, current UN investigators, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, BBC, Times, etc, who have all confirmed that the Myanmarian government has been persecuting and engaged in ethnic cleansing of the minority Rohingya (Rakhine State) Muslim community. This has to stop!”
According to them, the torture is done only because of the minority’s faith and particularly the religion practised (Islam) which the army and the government deem foreign to the state’s religion which is Buddhism.
“The Buddhist themselves such as monks are taking arms and destroying innocent beings and villages,” they added.
The petition said young children, women and men, the old and the disabled are all being tortured, set on fire, raped, murdered and their houses burned. “We as the humankind have to take action and take the head of the Myanmar state Aung San Suu Kyi and the armed forces’ commander-in-chief, Min Aung Hlaing to International Criminal Court (The Hague) over a genocide case so both of them can answer to their hate crimes.
“The current leaders are silent. Last year (British Prime Minister) Theresa May invited the head of Myanmar to Downing Street for a discussion and to join her for an afternoon tea. This is absurd.
“Please bring justice back in this world and with your help we can achieve sending this message of support and expression of unity to those leaders that have no mercy, so it may change their conception.”
The campaigners said unfortunately they cannot take them to court as per the advice of an international human rights lawyer.
“As Myanmar won’t sign the Rome Statute, the only way that the ICC can investigate is a referral to them from the UN Security Council,” the lawyer told them, adding “so you need to pressure UN Security Council members to make the referral. Only then can the ICC investigate.”
The campaigners said: “Please continue to support us to fund our work on pressuring the UN Security Council through protests outside Downing Street on the 16th of September, pressuring UN members’ embassys and campaigns to take them to the International Criminal Court.”
