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The International Criminal Court Must Engage with Myanmar’s Democratic Government and Investigate Atrocities Committed by the Military Junta
Press Release, Myanmar Accountability Project, MAP Embargoed until 0000 19 August 2022 London, 19 August, 2022: According to a legal opinion published today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has a clear legal obligation to accept the declaration of Myanmar’s democratic, National Unity Government (NUG) providing the consent of that state for the Court to exerciseContinue reading “The International Criminal Court Must Engage with Myanmar’s Democratic Government and Investigate Atrocities Committed by the Military Junta”
In the Matter of the Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Matter of the Declaration Made by the National Unity Government as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Accepting the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
Webinar Invitation: Why the International Criminal Court (ICC) Must Take Action to End Impunity in Myanmar
19 August 2022, 13:00 London time, 19:00 Bangkok, 08:00 New York Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yNg29BF8TjqQYCEj2oT9ig On 20 August 2021 Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) made a Declaration under Article 12(3) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Statute that it accepts the jurisdiction of the court. The acceptance of the declaration could pave the way to the ICCContinue reading “Webinar Invitation: Why the International Criminal Court (ICC) Must Take Action to End Impunity in Myanmar”
The fight against the military heats up in the courtroom
On June 1, Turkish authorities announced that they were opening an investigation into atrocities carried out at the interrogation centre. The landmark decision marks the first time that a national court has accepted a case against the military regime for crimes committed since it overthrew the civilian government in February of last year. The caseContinue reading “The fight against the military heats up in the courtroom”
Resolving Myanmar’s UN Representation
The Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the Myanmar Accountability Project co-hosted a webinar on the question of Myanmar’s representation at the United Nations (UN) on 28 June 2022. The following summary note provides an overview of the key outcomes from the event. The panel included: Aung Myo Min, Minister for HumanContinue reading “Resolving Myanmar’s UN Representation”
Press Release: Myanmar’s Democratic Government Demands Representation on All UN Bodies
Press Release for Immediate PublicationLondon, 28 June 2022: The Human Rights Minister of Myanmar’s National Unity Government, Aung Myo Min, has demanded NUG representation at all United Nations bodies and has denounced the UN Human Rights Council decision to leave Myanmar’s seat empty. Speaking on the side lines of a webinar co-hosted by the AsiaContinue reading “Press Release: Myanmar’s Democratic Government Demands Representation on All UN Bodies”
Press Release: MAP Demands the Expulsion of Myanmar’s Military Attache in London as part of its “Junk the Junta” Campaign
Press Release, Myanmar Accountability Project, London, 26 June, 2022: MAP Director, Chris Gunness, today called on Boris Johnson and his Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, to expel Captain Soe Aung, the military attache in London of the illegal Myanmar junta, which seized power in February last year. Speaking at a protest outside the residence of SoeContinue reading “Press Release: MAP Demands the Expulsion of Myanmar’s Military Attache in London as part of its “Junk the Junta” Campaign”
Statement by Chris Gunness, Director of the Myanmar Accountability Project Delivered at a Demonstration Outside the Indonesian Embassy in London on 16 June 2022
Indonesian Embassy in London, 16 June 2022 There are two alarming developments that are yet more evidence that the Association of South East Asian Nations, ASEAN, is abandoning key commitments in its own charter, which call for respect for democracy, human rights and the rule of law and which also call for “people-centred” solutions toContinue reading “Statement by Chris Gunness, Director of the Myanmar Accountability Project Delivered at a Demonstration Outside the Indonesian Embassy in London on 16 June 2022”
မြန်မာစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်နှင့် အပေါင်းပါများကို စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုဖြင့်တရားစွဲရန် တူရကီက စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှု စတင်
မြန်မာ အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး မင်းအောင်လှိုင်အပါအဝင် မြန်မာစစ်အုပ်စုအဖွဲ့ဝင်တွေကို စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုနဲ့စွဲချက်တင်နိုင်ဖို့ တူရကီအာဏာပိုင်တွေက စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှုတွေ စတင်ပြုလုပ်နေပြီဖြစ်တယ်လို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတာဝန်ခံမှုစီမံချက် (MAP) အဖွဲ့က ဇွန် ၁ ရက်မှာ ထုတ်ပြန်ပါတယ်။ ဒီအမှုကို တူရကီနိုင်ငံ အစိုးရရှေ့နေရုံးမှာ စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုနဲ့ စွဲချက်တင်နိုင်ဖို့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ တာဝန်ခံမှုစီမံချက် Myanmar Accountability Project, MAP အဖွဲ့က ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့တာ ဖြစ်ပြီး စစ်အုပ်စုက ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်သူတွေရဲ့ နာမည်တွေကို သူတို့အဖွဲ့က တရားရုံးကို ပို့ပေးမှာ ဖြစ်ကာ နိုင်ငံတကာ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့က သူတို့ကိုဖမ်းဖို့လည်း ကနဦးတောင်းဆိုထားခဲ့တာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ MAP အဖွဲ့က ဒါရိုက်တာ ခရစ္စဂန်းနက်စ်က “ဒီလို မကြုံစဖူး စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှု စတင်လိုက်တာဟာ ထိပ်တန်းစစ်ဗိုလ်ချုပ်တွေကနေ အနိမ့်ဆုံးအဆင့်အထိ တကမ္ဘာလုံးက စောင့်ကြည့်နေပြီး သူတို့ကိုContinue reading “မြန်မာစစ်ခေါင်းဆောင်နှင့် အပေါင်းပါများကို စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုဖြင့်တရားစွဲရန် တူရကီက စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှု စတင်”