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He [Min Aung Hlaing] is responsible for orchestrating the genocide against the innocent Rohingya people,
said Mohammed Zubair, a Rohingya researcher living in a Bangladesh refugee camp
We are happy to hear about ICC issuing an arrest warrant against the Myanmar military commander Min Aung Hlaing,
said Rohingya civil society leader Sayod Alam, living in the cramped refugee camps across the border in BangladeshIssuing an arrest warrant is good news for us,
said Maung Sayodullah, leader of a civil rights organisation in Cox's BazarWe are still not safe in our homeland, Rakhine,
he said, calling for action to stop fightingThe Rohingya were waiting for this,
she saidOur people have been fighting against external invaders and various internal insurgents by joining hands with Tatmadaw,
Min Aung Hlaing said in a speech in August
He was a man of few words and normally kept a low profile,
a classmate told Reuters in 2016.They are not the natives,
he told the U.S. ambassador, according to an account of the October 2017 meeting posted on his Facebook page at the timeThe Bengali problem was a long-standing one which has become an unfinished job,
he saidIn doing so, we will be demonstrating, together with all of our partners, that the Rohingya have not been forgotten. That they, like all people around the world, are entitled to the protection of the law,
the British-born barrister said
My Office alleges that these crimes were committed between 25 August 2017 and 31 December 2017 by the armed forces of Myanmar, the Tatmadaw, supported by the national police, the border guard police, as well as non-Rohingya civilians,
Khan’s statement saidAfter an extensive, independent and impartial investigation, my office has concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Senior General and Acting President Min Aung Hlaing... bears criminal responsibility for crimes against humanity,
Karim Khan said in a statement
This is the first application for an arrest warrant against a high-level Myanmar government official that my office is filing. More will follow,
the ICC prosecutor’s statement said
The ICC prosecutor’s decision to seek a warrant against Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing comes amid renewed atrocities against Rohingya civilians that echo those suffered seven years ago,
Maria Elena Vignoli, senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch said