Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said Myanmar should disband its commission of inquiry into abuses in Rakhine state because what it says Myanmar is clearly unwilling to seriously investigate alleged grave crimes against the ethnic Rohingya.
“The Myanmar commission’s dismissal of the extensive documentation of gross human rights abuses against the Rohingya makes abundantly clear that it is not serious about seeking justice,” said Brad Adams, HRW’s Asia Director.
The UN Security Council, Adams said, should stop giving credence to this commission and refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court.
At a news conference on December 12, Rosario Manalo, chair of the Independent Commission of Enquiry, stated that the commission had found “no evidence” to support allegations of human rights abuses in the four months since it officially opened its investigation, said the New York-based global rights body on Wednesday.
Her statement shows that the commission is disregarding evidence and testimony collected by United Nations fact-finders, the United States State Department, and international human rights organisations since violence broke out in Rakhine State in 2016, said the HRW.
