聯合國人權理事會開始收集緬甸犯罪記錄

The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed Thursday to set up a team that will document alleged crimes committed by the Myanmar government against the country’s Rohingya minority.

The 47-member council voted 35-3 in favor of creating an “independent mechanism” that will follow up on a previous fact-finding commission.

“The new mechanism mandated today will collect and preserve evidence and prepare case files for any future criminal prosecution of those responsible for some of the gravest crimes under international law,” said Tirana Hassan of Amnesty International in a statement, calling for the U.N. Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court.

More than 700,000 members of the mostly Muslim Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh from Rakhine state since the largely Buddhist government of Myanmar began a widespread crackdown across the region in 2017 in response to of series of attacks committed by Rohingya militants.

International observers have accused the Myanmar military of burning villages and committing mass rape, torture and murder. The U.N. has referred to the situation as a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing.”

Rohingya have long dealt with discrimination at the hands of the government of Myanmar. The group has been denied citizenship for decades, essentially rendering its members stateless.聯合國人權理事會週四同意成立一個小組，收集記錄緬甸政府被控對該國羅興亞少數民族犯下的罪行。

由47名成員組成的人權理事會以35票對3票贊成建立一個“獨立機制”，對之前一個事實調查委員會的調查結果進行跟進。

大赦國際在一份聲明中呼籲聯合國安理會將此事提交國際刑事法院，聲明說，“今天授權的新機制將收集和保存證據並準備案件檔案，以便今後對那些應對國際法規定的一些極爲嚴重罪行負責的人進行刑事追究。”

緬甸以佛教徒爲主的政府在羅興亞武裝分子發動一系列襲擊之後，於2017年開始對若開邦地區展開大規模鎮壓行動，導致70多萬名穆斯林爲主的羅興亞人逃往鄰國孟加拉國。

國際觀察員指責緬甸軍隊燒燬村莊並實施大規模強姦、酷刑和殺戮。聯合國將這種情況稱爲“種族清洗的標準案例”。

羅興亞長期以來受到緬甸政府的歧視。羅興亞人幾十年來一直無法獲得公民身份，基本上成爲無國籍的人。