Tag: Permanent People's Tribunal

By Garima Tyagi, Kuala Lumpur : An international people's tribunal on Friday held Myanmar guilty of "genocide" against Rohingya Muslims and said the "systematic targeting of civilians" and other acts committed by the Myanmar Army must be qualified as war crimes. A seven-member bench of Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT), holding proceedings on alleged atrocities and state crimes against the Rohingya, Kachins and other ethnic minority groups in Myanmar, said the Myanmar army was committing the crime in the "context of official duties". "On the strength of the evidence presented, the tribunal reached...