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Argentina court to investigate Myanmar war crimes against Rohingya Muslims
Argentina’s justice system will investigate allegations of war crimes committed by the Myanmar military against that country’s Rohingya minority under a court ruling upholding the principles of “universal justice.”
The appeals court decision, which Agence France-Presse has seen, overturns a lower court ruling rejecting a request for an investigation by the British-based Burmese Rohingya Organisation (BROUK).
A 2017 army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, which the UN says could amount to genocide, has triggered an exodus of more than 740,000 members of the community, mainly to Bangladesh.
At: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/29/argentina-court-myanmar-war-crimes-rohingya
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights Tomás Ojea Quintana (left) visits Aung Min Ga Lar, the Rohingya Muslim quarter of Sittwe, Myanmar, in 2013.
Ojea Quintana, an Argentine lawyer, will represent Rohingya Muslim plaintiffs in Argentina - in what may become a landmark case of human rights abuse prosecution under universal jurisdiction.
The legal premise of “universal justice” holds that some acts – including war crimes and crimes against humanity – are so horrific they are not specific to one nation and can be tried anywhere.