The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity over the alleged persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority.
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00:00The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he would seek an arrest warrant
00:05for Myanmar's military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity over the alleged
00:09persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority.
00:13A panel of three judges will now decide if they agree there are reasonable grounds to
00:17believe General Min Aung Hlaing bears criminal responsibility for the deportation and persecution
00:22of Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
00:25It generally takes around three months to rule on issuing an arrest warrant.
00:29A spokesperson for Myanmar's ruling junta did not answer calls for comment.
00:33More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh during the campaign which the
00:38United Nations investigators said was carried out with genocidal intent.
00:43Buddhist Majority Myanmar denies accusations of genocide, saying it carried out military
00:48operations against terrorists.
00:51Myanmar is not a member of the treaty-based ICC, but the court has jurisdiction over alleged
00:55cross-border crimes that partially took place in neighboring ICC member Bangladesh.