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The Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has requested an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader.
The commander-in-chief and de facto head of government, General Min Aung Hlaing, is responsible for crimes against humanity involving the persecution and deportation of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar in 2017, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan said in The Hague on Wednesday.
Hundreds of thousands of people from the Muslim Rohingya minority fled their predominantly Buddhist homeland of Myanmar seven years ago when the military launched an offensive against them. Around a million Rohingya now live in the world’s largest concentration of refugee camps in the district of Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh. (DPA)
