Myanmar’s army seizes power, popular leader Aung San Suu Kyi detained
In a statement on a military-owned television station, the army said it had carried out the detentions in response to “election fraud”.
In a statement on a military-owned television station, the army said it had carried out the detentions in response to “election fraud”.
Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday authorized an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity, namely deportation, which have forced between 600,000 and one million Rohingya refugees out of Myanmar, into neighboring Bangladesh since 2016.
Myanmar’s military commanders must answer charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in a credible court, a United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) said on Tuesday, urging the international community to cut off all financial and other support to them.
Photo: UNHCR/Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo