Canada Rohingyas: Burma continues its persecutions despite a condemnation by international justice

© AFP / INDRANIL MUKHERJEE In 2017, Rohingyas were forced to leave Burma. Here a woman keeps her brother in chains for her own safety and to prevent him from getting lost and lost in the vast refugee camp.

The Burmese government continues to persecute the Rohingya Muslim minority despite its condemnation by international justice, lawyers and human rights defenders said Monday.

Since 2017, some 740,000 Rohingyas have fled abuses by the Burmese army and have taken refuge in neighboring Bangladesh, where they are crammed into huge makeshift camps. This crisis has led Burma to be accused of "genocide" before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial body of the UN.

12 Songs That Joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club In 2020

Just over 200 music videos have surpassed the one billion views mark on Youtube, the beloved streaming service that launched 15 years ago. The first video to reach a billion views was Psy’s “Gangnam Style” in 2012. Then it was Bieber, naturally, with “Baby” in 2015. “Despacito” is near the top of the list, with

Lawyers and activists say persecution of Muslim minority is continuing despite UN action. In legal proceedings separate from the ICJ case, the international criminal court last year opened an investigation into the persecution of the Rohingya .

Burma has rejected allegations of ethnic cleansing, claiming its security forces were carrying out clearance operations to defend against the insurgents of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, which claimed responsibility for the August attacks and similar, smaller raids in October last year.

READ ALSO> Burma: the two Reuters journalists definitively sentenced to 7 years in prison

Last January, the ICJ ordered Burma to stop its atrocities, to preserve the evidence of the crimes committed against the Rohingyas and to make a report every six months to the UN.

Despite these decisions of the Court, "the genocide continues," said Monday Tun Khin, president of Burma Rohingya Organization UK, one of the most important NGOs defending this minority, in a statement.

Video: St-Cyr: opening of the military trial for the drowning of a cadet (AFP)

"The Burmese government and the military think they can ignore the measures provisional (decreed by the ICJ) without incurring any consequences ”, he added.

'Justice League': Zack Snyder Reveals a Revamped Look for Steppenwolf (Photo)

Zack Snyder released a revamped look for "Justice League" villain Steppenwolf on his Vero account on Tuesday, the first look at the character for the upcoming cut of his movie coming to HBO MAX. As TheWrap first exclusively reported, 'Game of Thrones' Star Ciaran Hinds voiced Steppenwolf in the 2017 film. Steppenwolf is a motion-capture character from an alien planet, much like the Marvel Studios villain Thanos played by Josh Brolin in the last two "Avengers" movies. © Provided by TheWrap Justice League Zack Snyder Steppenwolf Steppenwolf is an extraterrestrial conqueror with his own army.

Muslim Rohingya facing discrimination and violence from the Buddhist majority in Burma but plight going unnoticed by world at large. Their plight generally goes unnoticed by the world at large, even though some rights activists say their persecution amounts to ethnic cleansing.

The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar continues to escalate and the international community's The Rohingya are considered illegal immigrants by the Myanmar government, despite evidence that the International response. India and China are key regional powers and both have acted cruelly towards

"Burma has done nothing to address the root causes of discrimination and impunity which give rise to the persistent risk of genocide against the Rohingyas", declared for his part the legal director of the NGO Global Justice Center, Grant Shubin.

Aung San Suu Kyi denies any genocidal dimension

The persecution of the Rohingyas, who are still around 600,000 in Burma where they live in conditions that their defenders qualify as apartheid, has permanently tarnished the international reputation of the country and of its leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, whose title is contested.

Having come in person to defend his country before the ICJ, Aung San Suu Kyi conceded last year a possible “disproportionate” use of force, but denied any “genocidal intention”.

The former icon of democracy, Nobel Prize 1991 for his resistance to the military junta then in power, is widely criticized by the international community for his passivity in this crisis.