Legal action required NOW

The situation in Myanmar has gone from bad to worse. Approaching half a million Rohingya have fled the recent atrocities that have been condemned around the world as ethnic cleansing and genocide.

There has been widespread international horror at the situation. Over 400,000 people have already signed our petition to stop the genocide in Myanmar and pledging support to take Aung San Suu Kyi and the Chief General to international court.

World leaders have weighed in with Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu saying to Aung San Suu Kyi: “If the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep.”

What do we want to achieve?

It will be a long, complex legal journey to get justice for the thousands that have perished and the hundreds of thousands traumatised and displaced. It will also cost a considerable amount of money.

Ultimately we have three legal objectives:

(i) Produce written complaints to show that Myanmar is in violation of multiple international treaties

(ii) Seek to support the setting up of an International Commission of Inquiry as already called for by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

(iii) Establish whether the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to carry out a preliminary examination.

Why do we need money now?

With your support we can instruct our legal team to begin phase 1 of the process of holding those responsible to account in international court.

In Phase 1 of the legal process our lawyers will:

(i) Begin investigations on the ground in Bangladesh with those displaced Rohingya, gathering first-hand accounts

(ii) Explore all potential legal avenues including establishing which actors have performed the alleged acts of violence and which countries they come from.

(iii) Gather evidence from existing United Nations reporting.