“The SAC Military which had extended under the pretext of maintaining the power under the 2008 constitution, is also conducting on the ground to defense against the Rohingya genocide,” the involved people confirmed.
Lieutenant General Tun Tun Naung, the Union Minister of the Ministry of Border Affairs; U Ko Ko Hlaing, the Union Minister of the Ministry of International Cooperation; Dr. Thet Thet Khaing, the Union Minister of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, under the SAC Military, had arrived in Rakhine State on 5 February.
During that trip, the heads of departments under the SAC Military from the townships where the Rohingya genocide had took place, were called to hold a meeting and were forced to do it again.
‘To monitor the main places where it had happened, to erase the traces, to organize witnesses and testify on their behalf. Also, they asked for ideas on how to do it,” a person who attended the meeting told MPA.
The meeting was held at the State Meeting Hall of the SAC in Sittwe in Rakhine State on 5th and 6th February two times, as well as they also visited the re-acceptance sites in Maungdaw township.
It is said that during the meeting, they mainly ordered to defense against the case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and to do everything related to that case.
A senior security officer of the SAC Military from Maungdaw District, who attended the meeting, told MPA that they ordered to do everything that should be done for not losing the case before the ICJ. The main thing is to organize those who stayed here without running away. Mainly, it is afraid of losing the case before the ICJ”.
In 2019, the Gambia had filed a lawsuit against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice due to the genocide of the Rohingya in Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships in 2017.
The Rohingya said that during that incident, tens of thousands of Rohingya were killed, and another 700,000 were forced to flee for their lives to Bangladesh.
Photo – MPA (Picture: Some houses built for resettlement in a Rohingya village that were destroyed by fire in Maungdaw in 2017)