The United Nations’ investigative body on Myanmar has called for an end to the “cycle of impunity” related to crimes committed against the country’s ethnic Rohingya minority.
The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), established by the UN in 2018, released a statement on Thursday urging an end to impunity for these horrific crimes.“Seven years since the clearance operations against the Rohingyas, the cycle of impunity must be broken,” the statement read.The IIMM was created to collect and analyse evidence of serious international crimes following a brutal military campaign against the Rohingya that began on August 25, 2017, in northern Rakhine State. This operation forced more than 700,000 Rohingyas from their homes in Rakhine, leading them to live as refugees in dire conditions in neighbouring Bangladesh.
This week marks seven years since the Myanmar security forces’ violent actions drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas—women, men. . .
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