Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor David Ward (Liberal Democrat), on Monday, 24 February 2014, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 50 members in total.

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INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ROHINGYA

That this House is deeply concerned by the statement of the UN Special Rapporteur on Burma that the government of Burma is failing to satisfactorily investigate allegations of the mass murder of ethnic Rohingya men, women and children at Du Chee Yar Tan village in January 2014; notes that the government of Burma has failed to respond to every single request by the United Nations to carry out impartial and independent investigations into human rights abuses in Burma; further notes that the government of Burma has rejected and failed to investigate evidence compiled by Human Rights Watch of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya; condemns the rejection by the Burmese government of the UN General Assembly Resolution call to reform the discriminatory 1982 Citizenship Law; believes that it is now abundantly clear that the government of Burma is not willing to take sufficient action to either investigate or end violence and discrimination against the Rohingya; and therefore calls on the Government to work to establish an independent international investigation into violations of international law against the Rohingya people in Burma.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1102 

Session

2013-14

Other sponsors

Alan Meale

Martin Caton

Mark Durkan

Bob Russell

Jim Shannon

Subjects

Human rights Ethnic groups Asia

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk