subsidized supply of fuel from venezuela was cut that was supplied through the petro program begun by travelers in 2005 to help the development of caribbean nations the program ended last year as u.s. sanctions isolated from israel are from the international financial system so maybe that's your it's a protest of the pitch which is in the country the high cost of living in the wake of security. now the country must rely on the u.s. market for energy and supply is demanding about $100000000.00 an unpaid fees before move fuel is delivered prices a rocket electricity blackouts are becoming common. this morning i bought a gallon of petrol for 9 u.s. dollars in the car full area with this snow and bill is i usually can get a full tank for my not a cycle and still have change lift there is particular anger at president over no mores who government order to say personally profited from the old system of subsidized venezuelan fuel siphoning off millions of dollars of aid meant for development. we are demonstrating and we are rebelling against the president job

anomalies and the system because this system does not bring any change to our haitian people and we will keep protesting if the president refuses to resign because we are tired of the system not only that earlier this year there were street protests after morey's administration voted not to recognize the legitimacy of the venezuelan government at the organization of american states an unprecedented moment for a country that received billions of dollars of help from caracas it was a gesture that gratified washington but there are signs that the white house so long a power broker in this country may not be able to shield its ally if the street protests continue and the fractured political opposition to the more you can unite. new york has become the 2nd u.s. state to ban flavored east cigarettes because of health concerns michigan was the 1st state to ban of aping products earlier this month federal health investigators are concerned by a rise in severe. breathing illnesses linked of

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of thousands of rohingya muslims remaining in me and more face a serious risk of genocide that's according to a new report from a united nations fact finding mission u.n. investigators are also calling for top generals and me and more to stand trial for war crimes but would that be enough to end the suffering of one of the most persecuted minorities in the world this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. 2 years after me and more as military crackdown on the roof you an investigator say conditions remain deplorable for the muslim ethnic minority that 600000 rohingya living in iraq and state face a serious risk of genocide and that it is impossible for hundreds of thousands who fled to bangladesh to return last year the u.n. fact finding mission found that military officers carried out

a campaign against the regime with genocidal intent the investigators are now calling for me and more to be held responsible and army generals to face trial over rapes and killings mean mars government has repeatedly denied all accusations the reports also concluded that me and more is failing in its obligation to prevent investigate and criminalize genocide rohingya living in iraq and state face hate speech and restrictions on almost every aspect of their life factors for arbitrary detention killings torture rape and other forms of sexual violence are still present the mission calls for the un security council to refer me and more to the international criminal court and urged governments and companies to sever all business ties with the military it says it has a confidential list of more than $100.00 names including officials suspected of being involved in genocide and war crimes.

all right let's bring in our guests from germany by skype is dr anita shook head of the women children and public affairs department for the european council and from yangon and me and more also by skype is john quigley a human rights specialist at fortify rights a nonprofit human rights organization thank you both for joining us anita showed so this new report from the u.n. fact finding mission has now been handed off to the independent investigative mechanism for me and more what happens next. what happens next. i answer this question we have to make sure that the independent this independent mechanic it's not a court itself and that's why it's very important and the record already has said that remain in your kind are under the threat or are facing the genocide genocide so we have to consider that this is independent mechanism is not a code itself but it's the use the evidence to chaz being given collided by the

fact cunning mission to prosecute general in the future so it is very important that. international community takes concrete action referring the military the country itself to i.c.c. and to the international criminal court of justice because otherwise given the mama tree and the civilian government to continue to enjoy the impunity for the crimes they have committed or being the complicit for the genocide against doing a community and genocide of their own your community does not stop it is being in other communities are being also involved like they're kind people. so there should be. beyond them a kind of beside the mechanics and they should be and action now so is this what the international community has been providing are the political political it

should end drunkenly i saw you nodding along the to what and you know sugar was saying i want to give you a chance to respond because it looks like you want to jump in but i also want to ask you to expand upon the point that anita sugar is making when it comes to the international criminal court because this is a process that is beset with complications and bureaucracy at the moment there is an official request by the prosecutor of the i.c.c. in front of a panel of judges for an official investigation to be opened into the crimes against the rahane guy but we have no idea when decision will be made and we don't yet know when or if this could actually show up in a courtroom form correct. yeah i think their actual community should use all the tools that has and it's tool box to be able to push for international accountability. so that means you know like anita said the i.c.j. the i.c.c. even the fear i mean the man our generals here here in the country they fear

international prosecution so this can have international accountability and even the idea of it can have a preventative effect and stop future atrocities from taking place in the country anita should one of the recommendations made by the u.n. fact finding commission is for international organizations other countries to stop doing business with me and morris military but is there any evidence as of yet that the tide has turned on that that these groups that are doing business with me in march military will listen to these pleas and stop doing so. i don't think so does food happen very soon in the future because it at the end of the day the plight of door is basically because of the economic interests in the country because everyone things that they have they have to have a piece of cake in the newly open market in the year and the m.r.

is not not one of the explorer markets so every country every and many of the companies are villan to. look. at the genocide of do and continue to do business as usual so i think unless and until these an accountability of the military being dragged to the international community coat and the country itself for while eating or not being able to are not willing to protect the it's a very vulnerable group or ethnic minorities in the country i don't think so if they're in the near future this is going to stop all companies may continue to do so john quickly one of the points made repeatedly throughout the new report is that sexual and gender based violence by mean more is military remains a prominent feature of conflicts there but we're not just talking about the ring or

correct them we're talking about conflicts that they've had with other ethnic groups and shannon catchin states correct yeah i mean the coach and the shon the qur'an there are hendra have all experience atrocity crimes from the me and our military the miramar military is the problem in there there's a lot of solidarity happening between the ethnic groups right now you know rape has been used as a weapon or in clay so it's like a trial on shonen and kitchen states and this is not just happening against their handa and it's not just happening elsewhere men men and transgender or 100 people have also been targeted by the military and you know experienced sexual violence against them. i mean to show from your vantage point. you know again and again we've seen n.g.o.s we've seen u.n. organizations put out these calls for the international community to do more to help the rain why is that not happening i think as international community or the

u.n. has stated very many years ago there are. not only the most persecuted community or ethnic minority in the what but they're also. the ones who have the least friends and the test shown again during the atrocities in 2017 and now that the empathy our people should be receiving it. they have failed to receive them to the beach to deserve and this is that inaction of the international community because i don't think so. are to such an extent marginalized and they can offer anything to the international community. a one of the reasons that the rank are so marginalizes because they are effectively stateless and you recently authored a report for fortify rights called tools of genocide in which you you really described in detail the history of what is called the national verification card

and how you say that has been used by me in mars' military to further marginalise could you go into a bit more detail about what exactly that national verification card scheme is and how it has been used. yes and not hold their kitchen card or the n.b.c. it affectively identify as their hand as a foreigner. in their own land and it strips their ahead of access to full citizenship rights be n.b.c. is based off discriminatory law called the 1902 citizenship law which also does not allow their hand access for citizenship at best the n.b.c. can ground or hand naturalized citizen ship but a naturalized citizen can be stripped of their rights at any time by them myanmar by the state so this is not sustainable solution for him in the country tree

or for those that may return in the future and the. there's been a lot of coverage over the past 2 years about these repatriation deals these agreements that were made between the governments of of me and more and bangladesh in order for rangar refugees in bangladesh to return to me in march i was on the ground in cox's bizarre bangladesh last november when they tried to initiate one of these repatriation schemes and the un was involved they interviewed all the names that were on the list that had been provided by bangladesh to me and more and not one rohingya refugee who is in or interviewed agreed to go back because they were so afraid for their safety are you concerned that they will get to a point in bangladesh where there could be a forced repatriation scheme because up until now it's only home and terry. if i

think and this is a nod to a restriction of full citizenship rights to do he gets inside myanmar is guaranteed and unless and until military who has perpetrated the genocide against our community are held accountable there is no save and security for our people and not a single he is beginning to return home that's why the dam might be a time in the future the bunker this is frustrated the empathy is going to be very no for the people like in 1992 when a dish has forced people to return to me m.r. so their dam might be at times but now there's an into international media coverage there is a pressure on this government also so i am not sure if none of this government is going to risk its image there might be an attempt like pushing them to brush and char island but pushing them to rakhine state i don't think so they even risk

destroying their image junk when they what do you think about that point i mean bangladesh has government it has has said over and over again that repatriation would only happen if it was on a voluntary basis but there are indications right now from officials in bangladesh and from media outlets in bangladesh that perhaps patience seems to be running out when it comes to the rink issue do you think we could get to a point where repatriation could be pushed again and maybe they suggested it would be a forced repatriation. yeah i was i was in cox bazaar during the repatriation process in november 2018 i was also in caucus are recently in august 22nd monitoring there are a trace in process of her rights and myself spoke to people who are hendo refugees in the camps on august 22nd that were on the repatriation list and all of them like anita said. don't want to go back without restored citizenship rights they also

talk about the need to go back to their original holy land and many of them talked about the need for reparations for the law they've occurred from atrocity. you know right now bangladesh is making it very difficult for the rich refugees to live in the camps there's been you know restrictions on internet and sim cards in the camps and this makes it very difficult for render refugees to communicate with the outside world you know i n.g.o.s in the camps are being restricted right now so this is kind of a squeezing a fact that could lead for him gets a fear living in bangladesh so you know sort of rights calls on the hmong issue governments to protect or hinder refugee rights and to restore access to you know internet and sim cards and allow freedom of movement access to formalize education in the camps and to make it a sustainable place to lift you know but the main issue is that me amar needs to

create a situation where there are hendra are willing to return and and right now we see in myanmar is a situation of ongoing genocide and persecution and there is no access to education in and state now and there's still attacks going on against their head and other ethnic minority it's an issue of i want to ask you to expand on the point you were making a few moments ago because you mentioned boss on chart on chart for our viewers understand this is a a tiny this silt island that's off the coast of bangladesh in the bay of bengal and the idea is that they would perhaps the government a bomb with this will be moving potentially hundreds of thousands.