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Myanmar: Rohingya

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 469, tabled on 6 January 2020

Question

Ms Lyn Brown
Labour
West Ham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will provide support to Gambia in the case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice in respect of allegations of genocide and human rights abuses against the Rohingya people.

Answer

Mrs Heather Wheeler
Conservative
South Derbyshire
Commons

Answered on

9 January 2020

​UK Ministers have repeatedly expressed their profound concern at the horrific events of August 2017 in Rakhine state. The perpetrators of these atrocities should be held to account. We are following proceedings in The Hague closely and welcome the International Court of Justice's consideration of whether genocide has occurred.

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