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The government announced Monday night that an "independent" investigation commission had been established but gave no details about its powers, its powers or the time allowed to complete its report.
The army tore up Rohingya villages in a campaign began last August following a series of insurgent attacks, forcing 700,000 people to flee massively to the Bangladesh border
The Rohingyas have reported reports of widespread killings, rape, torture and arson by the army and the Rakhine ethnic group. In the decades before, the Rohingya have been systematically stripped of their rights by a country that considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh
David Mathieson, a Yangon-based analyst. "Given the weight of the evidence gathered by Amnesty International, the UN and the media, this Commission of Inquiry (Commission of I" This is tantamount to a brutal gesture, not a real investigation ", a- he said, adding that he could only "collide with an army covering ethnic cleansing."
The members of the new commission include two foreign nationals and two Myanmar nationals: l & # 39; former Philippine Deputy Foreign Minister Rosario Manalo, former UN Representative Kenzo Oshima, the former president of the Myanmar Constitutional Court, U Mya Thein and Aung Tun Thet, who heads the body government of Myanmar dedicated to the Rohingya crisis
The Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star in April, Aung Tun Thet denied the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas in Rakhine
Sean Bain, legal adviser to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) stressed The previous surveys on Rakhine did not produce any tangible results.
They "tend to be ad hoc, rarely, if ever, to prosecute and not provide redress," he tweeted. "Impunity has the effect of undermining justice and emboldening the perpetrators."
Two prominent members of previous commissions, former Thai ambassador Kobsak Chutikul and US diplomat Bill Richardson, resigned publicly after expressing frustration with the government. Myanmar researcher Rich Weir said the new body would be used as previous commissions "as distractions and shields of criticism and pressure".
Soe Myint Aung, political analyst in Myanmar, said the creation of the new commission "Some people think that it is not severe enough, others think that it concedes too much in internationalizing a domestic problem, "he said about the civil leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was globally shaken by the crisis but remains a national heroine.
The military denied almost all allegations of human rights violations, justifying their "demining operations" as a means of flushing out Rohingya mi The policemen who killed a dozen border guards in Last August
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) estimate that at least 6,700 Rohingyas were killed during the first month of the army campaign.
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