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STORY: OHCHR / ICJ MYANMAR
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 JANUARY 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
24 JANUARY 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, press briefing room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We welcome the Order by the International Court of Justice that Myanmar must take ‘all measures within its power’ to protect the members of the Rohingya group from all future acts that may amount to genocide under the provisions of Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The High Commissioner has repeatedly expressed serious concerns about the situation of the Rohingya following the repeated waves of violence suffered by them, most recently in 2016 and 2017. She has frequently called for the full protection of their human rights, and genuine accountability for the serious violations and abuses they have endured.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“As the Secretary-General noted yesterday, as Rheal just point out, these provisional measures indicated by the Court are binding under international law.”
7. Wide shot, briefing room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The UN Human Rights Office calls on Myanmar to immediately and unconditionally implement them in full, consistently with its obligations under the Charter and the Court’s Statute.”
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The proceedings before the Court are vitally important, opening up a path towards judicial determination of Myanmar’s possible responsibility as a State under the Genocide Convention for the acts of persecution and severe repression of the Rohingya.”
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Alongside other international investigative and accountability processes that are likewise ongoing, we urge the authorities of Myanmar to cooperate fully with all of these inquiries, and at the same time to take active, effective steps enabling the Rohingya to live in peace and dignity in Myanmar, able to enjoy all their human rights.”
13. Wide shot, journalists
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We note that the Court, for purposes of its decision yesterday, repeatedly referenced the conclusions of the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, as well as the resolutions of the UN General Assembly addressing the situation of the Rohingya.”
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The Fact-Finding Mission last year concluded that there was a serious risk that genocidal actions directed at the Rohingya may recur.”
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18. SOUNDBITE (English) Liz Throssell, Spokesperson, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“More broadly, the Fact-Finding Mission also identified human rights abuses by the military against other ethnic minorities during decades of conflict. Addressing these legacies of impunity remains an essential precondition to a future of sustainable peace and enduring justice for all persons in Myanmar. “
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A spokesperson for the UN human rights office (OHCHR) welcomed an order by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Myanmar “must take ‘all measures within its power’ to protect the members of the Rohingya group from all future acts that may amount to genocide.”
Speaking to reporters in Geneva today (24 Jan), OHCHR spokesperson Liz Throssell said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet had “repeatedly expressed serious concerns about the situation of the Rohingya following the repeated waves of violence suffered by them, most recently in 2016 and 2017. She has frequently called for the full protection of their human rights, and genuine accountability for the serious violations and abuses they have endured.”
Throssell said these provisional measures indicated by the Court “are binding under international law.” She added, “The UN Human Rights Office calls on Myanmar to immediately and unconditionally implement them in full, consistently with its obligations under the Charter and the Court’s Statute.”
The OHCHR spokesperson noted that the proceedings before the Court “are vitally important, opening up a path towards judicial determination of Myanmar’s possible responsibility as a State under the Genocide Convention for the acts of persecution and severe repression of the Rohingya.”
Throssell added, “Alongside other international investigative and accountability processes that are likewise ongoing, we urge the authorities of Myanmar to cooperate fully with all of these inquiries, and at the same time to take active, effective steps enabling the Rohingya to live in peace and dignity in Myanmar, able to enjoy all their human rights.”
The spokesperson noted that the Court, “for purposes of its decision yesterday, repeatedly referenced the conclusions of the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, as well as the resolutions of the UN General Assembly addressing the situation of the Rohingya.” She said the Fact-Finding Mission last year concluded that there was a “serious risk that genocidal actions directed at the Rohingya may recur.”
Throssell said the Fact-Finding Mission also identified human rights abuses by the military against other ethnic minorities during decades of conflict. She stressed, “Addressing these legacies of impunity remains an essential precondition to a future of sustainable peace and enduring justice for all persons in Myanmar.”
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