'Int'l community should play a bigger role in identifying roots to the Rohingya crisis'

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Masud Bin Momen on Monday said international community, including United Nations Security Council (UNSC), has the duty to identify those responsible behind the ethnic cleansing as stated by the high commissioner of UNHCR. "UNHCR high commissioner termed the violence in Rakhine state of Myanmar a 'textbook example of ethnic cleaning', international community including the UNSC has the duty to identify those responsible for this," he said. Momen on Monday made the statement while participating in a discussion on a report of International Criminal Court (ICC) at UN General Assembly, according to a message received here from Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations. He said with the ongoing violence and forced displacement of people by the Myanmar security forces in Rakhine state, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has to put focus on its Rome Statute and act on the matter. Momen also reiterated the statement of UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng on the situation in northern Rakhine state where he had mentioned that the brutality in Myanmar can be treated as mass killing, crimes against humanity and war crimes. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at least 605,000 Rohingyas have entered Bangladesh since August 25.