International Criminal Court has no right to probe Rohingya crisis

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 10:00 PM

International Criminal Court has no right to probe Rohingya crisis

Naypyidaw, April 13: Myanmar has said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no jurisdiction over the country and hence cannot try it over allegations that hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas were deported to neighbouring Bangladesh.

In a statement, the Ministry of the Office of the State Counsellor -- headed by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi -- argued that Myanmar was not a signatory to the Rome Statute and hence it does not come under ICC jurisdiction.

On Monday, ICC's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had filed a petition where she contended that the Rohingyas were "intentionally deported across the international border into Bangladesh".

The Rohingya exodus began on August 25 when the Myanmar Army launched an offensive in the country's Rakhine region which included loot, rapes and razing down of Rohingya villages.