{"id":34712,"date":"2017-09-24T19:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/34712-week-in-review-when-failure-to-tackle-impunity-hinders-peace.html"},"modified":"2017-09-24T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T17:59:17","slug":"week-in-review-when-failure-to-tackle-impunity-hinders-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/34712-week-in-review-when-failure-to-tackle-impunity-hinders-peace.html","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: When failure to tackle impunity hinders peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

The exodus and massacre of Rohingyas, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar, marked the week in transitional justice. French President Emmanuel Macron said this was \u201cgenocide\u201d, while the UN Secretary General called it ethnic cleansing. But according to Myanmar\u2019s de facto leader, Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, this is a \u201chuge iceberg of misinformation\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Everything indicates, however, that some 400,000 Rohingyas, i.e. nearly half of this community living in Myanmar\u2019s western state of Rakhine or Arakan, have fled their country pursued by the army, and that hundreds have been shot dead or died as their houses were torched by the military.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch on Friday published satellite photos<\/a> showing the army\u2019s scorched earth policy. According to this NGO, more than 200 Rohingya villages have been burned and destroyed.<\/p>\n

This Muslim minority has been persecuted since the independence<\/a> of Burma (now known as Myanmar), whose hero is Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s own father, a staunch Burmese nationalist. The Rohingyas, accused of having collaborated with the British colonial power, were stripped of their Burmese nationality in 1982. The Burmese, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, deny them even their name of Rohingyas, preferring to call them \u201cBengalis\u201d, a pejorative name associating them with neighbouring Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

The Nobel peace prize laureate has finally called for pacification between communities, but without criticizing the methods of the army, of which she is a hostage. And the UN Security Council has vigorously condemned Myanmar, but the suffering of the Rohingyas continues.<\/p>\n

This situation is a serious stain on Myanmar\u2019s transition to democracy and rule of law in a country still dominated by the army. As for Aung San Suu Kyi, millions of Internet users have, in a petition launched from Indonesia, demanded that she be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cImpossible,\u201d responds the Nobel Committee, saying the prize is given only on the committee\u2019s assessment of the laureate\u2019s achievements up to the award, and not afterwards. \u00a0<\/p>\n

So for now, the Myanmar army can continue its massacres with impunity.<\/p>\n

Impunity in CAR and Burundi<\/h3>\n

But impunity is a stumbling block to any real transition or reconciliation in any country. And so JusticeInfo\u2019s editorial advisor Pierre Hazan reminds us <\/a>that after a dozen peace plans, the Central African Republic is still at war because it has failed to tackle the roots of the problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Central African population made its voice heard in popular consultations in 2015 and continues to do so in spaces for dialogue, saying that there can be no real peace without justice,\u201d writes Pierre Hazan. \u201cGiven a government in Bangui with no army or judicial system only holding on with the support of an increasingly divided international community, and the fragmentation and criminalization of armed groups looting the country\u2019s gold and diamond resources, the population\u2019s suffering continues.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same scenario is being played out in Burundi, which is subject to a ferocious clampdown by its president, Pierre Nkurunziza. \u201cWhen it is a matter of terror as a means of governance, of crimes against humanity, mass graves, rape and hate speech, the priority is no longer for an African solution because these are crimes that touch everyone\u2019s humanity,\u201d says Carine Kanez<\/a>, spokesperson for a Burundian women\u2019s NGO in an interview with JusticeInfo, in which she slammed the complicity of African Heads of State. \u201cPan-Africanism is a concept that is being increasingly manipulated with allegations of neo-colonialism against institutions like the ICC, and this hinders the possibility to ensure a peaceful transition. The international community needs to realize that this government is in total denial.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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