tv Myanmar On Trial Al Jazeera April 17, 2020 12:32pm-1:01pm +03
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your europeans go build you know the stage of you but we would not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the edges there are. villages about to the ground. hundreds of thousands displaced. mass murder. that is compelling evidence of genocide and genocide against. the gambia has taken me to the international court of justice accusing its government of orchestrating a campaign of destruction against the rocking of people there will be no tolerance
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of human rights violations and the kind. of the nudity i mean but now we have evidence showing that for many rohingya the nightmare continues i don't say that but i bloody well you know. as the weld awaits a verdict one o one east has been given access to years of secret videos. and we travel to me and must record in state to meet a people still facing danger discrimination and death. the gambians case is centered around the brutal military crackdown which began in late 2016 in response to attacks by an armed rohingya got group. it led to a mass exodus of rohingya into neighboring bangladesh in the months that followed.
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the. norm but to be a little a mother a bottle to be a mother going to live yet another one i'm wondering about i do not ever come up with real money to model. this video is one of many filmed by local activists determined to expose the royal hangers plight to the world. they are a rare glimpse inside rakhine state where journalists access is severely restricted . dania. honeycombed of 1. 101 east has reviewed and verified more than 3 years worth of footage it tells a horrific story on my show 100. 1 and time and now who really. he. says.
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at a secret location outside min ma we meet a former member of the activist group for his safety while hiding his identity money. when i got up to all of them i did not want to become a billionaire. i don't want to be out of india. and we're going to. you know believe it you can work it is it went out to be family. he filmed this interview just before the mass exodus in 2017 that so hundreds of thousands of rohingya fleeing bangladesh.
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got. into the revival of. nearly 3 years on we managed to track down the woman in the video. she now lives in bangladesh inside the world's largest refugee camp. the scars on karim. are a constant reminder of what happened to her in myanmar she says hundreds of soldiers attacked her home in church been a village on the 27th of august 2017 when she and her baby were shot. why bad blood up a lot of what i get a handle on i don't want to meditate or go by they didn't. think that i want to or don't want one they don't know how little love a lot of the women my life and other mother would have brought up no matter what i
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did karim as husband was also killed in the attack along with 3 other members of their family and hundreds of her fellow villagers will go to. my flat out there was. all of that the other woman by the mother by the letter got up and a lot and i got another little bit and i'm wondering about anger we're going to go to automatically what i what i want i want to let the little guy do what they want to let him go to the not only my own mind all of the way out there would. at the international court of justice in the hague on sun suchi says trippin was one of a dozen main conflict areas in 2017 pages of the most importance of the court assess a situation obtaining on the ground in rakhine dispassionately and accurate regretfully the gambia is place before the court she insists the military was merely responding
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to an. that had targeted more than 30 police stations and that army base in north america but she also says this it cannot be ruled out a disproportionate force was used by members of the defense says in some cases in this is a god of international match humanitarian law if law crimes have been committed by members of the mostest and services they will be prosecuted to all the military justice system in accordance with the most wants to. the case against myanmar has galvanized own son suchi supporters back home. one day before her testimony at the international court of justice thousands gathered in min most largest city young go on in support of their leader. and i'm
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mom and dad. and i need them one day and i am going to yet at midnight and then on. the for many here they can be as case is an assault on the dignity and soften their country. they insist the rule him go off foreigners to get the wrong hands. and the one who is right no matter who hears down or no no they know your little bit ruled out on the one hand i do know that now no one is you. boss for him to refugees now sheltering in bangladesh in system in ma is their homeland. so tara back on doesn't know if she can ever return
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she lost her husband during a military operation in august 2017 they lived in. one of the 12 areas on su cheez list as they were fleeing her husband decided to go back to knock that door when the bab said that the muslim wounded there anderson isn't going to keep. going to continue like that. and i mustn't let you did it and it. would have been a bunch of you and i did he and his egg. she. wanted to get it. so tara is now struggling to look off to her 5 children. the youngest is just a total the most wonderful of the early imo but let it happen it is there and they
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did not have what it would a little has led to the beloved the. more blood ratably did not look at it in that luggage that i like that he didn't. throw over the side of mohammad i assent his family also fled the same area foot bangladesh in 2017. he's kept a record of what happened there in the debilitation i'm a lot of the a lot of the got. a hold of it and the one of the. a lot i'm the one out there that they got out when i finally did yeah out of all of that you know the level of really put it to you well 'd you know the other one goes all the other caveats among bit about. videos filmed by residents show the extent of the destruction.
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i assess the attack was unprovoked. out of out of the media was all i wanted out of out of the meeting of the people at all i wouldn't get out i got out on the lawn i did comedy on a lot of the other side of the learned along i learned a lot it. got to one other good ones and got a lot of judgment then. from the other fish but other than that a lot of what i did out of it's really good and i did out of it should also look at it as a possible model is that all the money it will do you know about it and you know they've got a kind of model i'd argue with you got to go lie about that i don't know the little girl in the. me in moscow permit says it's willing to take back refugees like i asked.
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but it wants them to register for a national verification card and the see a process that will supposedly pave the way to citizenship. but many rohingya are reluctant. the process assumes that they offer foreigners the ding to fears that even if they are granted citizenship they won't have the same rights as regular citizens. i assume sis the rohingya should be treated equally. how does she do then to buy out the obvious to get out. that other means most of what the hell you do it's not like you know i didn't i'd even get it on all the commented feel called a gentleman to yell it on audio on the. bottom of that a lot of. we're visiting rakhine state on a rare government supervised press tour. from yank on it's
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a hard day journey by air land and sea. it's 5 days since the i.c.j. handed down a preliminary ruling ordering the myanmar government to take all measures to protect the rohingya from genocide. will be spending the night in mohmed or near the border with bangladesh. security is tight on the drive up there are police everywhere. on our way we possibly 02 g. . there's nothing to suggest this used to be home to a large community. a fence a new buildings have been erected. the land is now occupied by a police outpost. our 1st stop is a meeting with monkey or district administrator who so on. we ask him for his
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reaction to the icy chase preliminary ruling. don't let them know you're good on the end of it i thought oh my god i think you know about to be remembered and i don't know much of your game i don't know why. you got to the name of your capital you are here and i do not detect we are not good at any mcgovern are the general problem of your you got him out of what i don't want america to look. at i mean i did i made a kind of a bear i'm out on my machine i didn't i didn't know about it and i don't give my dog i'm out of here. with then ask him about wrecking the land that is now occupied by the government. now you know when you are you do as we buy the new new orleans we are meeting you i know when we are 2 or 3 i don't believe. in his reply the district administrator uses the word bengali to
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refer to the rohingya a controversial term that implies that they are foreigners and are going to we are going to bother you by. what your mom and i mean not you not. me my god we're not molded to the by seeing them as you wish you were looking to. curing most of our 3 days in northern rakhine state we follow a shuttle set out by the ministry of information. one of 5 minutes 45 messages they have to go with their voice heard nothing. but in minutes and in the next 20 minutes here. armed police stand guard at the villages we visit. a government camera man films us as we go about our work. in the house here. and mind us recall the names of everyone we talked to making it impossible to speak
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freely and all the young men yet. in yamaha children at an end geo funded center able to learn and play. but most conversely of more than a high school education. is 19 years old. now. and you don't plan. most as father side says it's because he doesn't have the right identity documents you know. they're down and they have. decided they don't need. only one. but then minders from the
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ministry of information take down the moose's details and he declines to answer any more questions. one afternoon we managed to walk into downtown without tom mind as. we were going to talk to him ok outside a mosque a man agrees to talk to us. but he got all dirty money out. of it it was good and i think if you know a little bit you know you'll be the one missing. but we're interrupted before we can even begin by the administrator of this area who thought they in 90. 3 or. between are you know made up of them or my feet out there i would induce you know within a one hour you know move out of the receiver at all my moment i don't know what. about the leader. i think about it you know i wish it.
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and it's on a go. we finally find a way to speak without mind as listening in. the villages who have kept their distance cheering off as it have a creed to be interviewed by phone. for security reasons they've asked us to hide their identities. putting out of their. land. any. idea that. a charity. got are going to get are going to where people are near you know you to be not normal or you are going to be murdered burning remember to write about to begin to go on. your mood when they were good people or did maybe go to a good game and are going to get there you know there are. going
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to be good we're going to be. great if somebody's bigger market beer. in more than 3 hours of conversations we learn that life for most reading is relentlessly stressful. they must observe cuff use conch travel freely and have limited access to health care and education. and since early 2019 they've also had to cope with a new crisis. or they will give it up to the one who did it or. not let them. have. the rohingya have been caught in the crossfire between the myanmar military and the rakhine group called the can army and then well i don't
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know what a little over the top. in this clip filmed by an activist in a. pl 2019 an injured boy lies on the ground as frantic villages try to flee from 1 o'clock that. night. well you. can bet my bottom dollar down. particular. military helicopters can be heard flying overhead. the boy was eventually taken to hospital he survived. but for others the attack proved deadly and if you. don't. run on the dollar you really don't know when you're. a bag of body parts is all that remains of 2 rohingya men killed during the same as strike.
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they'd go into the forest to cut bamboo says. to me you know where it seems is safe. in this video shot just days before a trip to rakhine state a woman one suggests of her daughter. was out there yet you know what i am that is not out not of an easy as i know what i know that i learned at the bottom we've been living in the new duty and 1000000. the victim had been hit by shrapnel from a rocket that crashed through her roof. and. the conflict has also affected locals who are not. over $500.00. in this rakhine village 68 year old ethan new shows us where she hides whenever
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fighting breaks out. she says there are several bunkers like this in the area that is ok i bought it i. other villages are just as frightened. and they do their job in there you only live by by the neutral be r.d.f. and we know you. are leading many levels. anybody. that we've had near you you good enough already by body many. looking me up and we have been here. that. it's nearly the end of october but there are 2 more rohingya villages to visit. both were partially destroyed in 2017. the me and mark government says
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they will resettle villages who didn't flee. in poteen remnants of a mosque are a reminder of what happened here. once home to more than a 5000 people only 300 remain today. village administrator mohammad hassan is unusually candid. he says it will take more than new houses to make things right and i didn't only want to or want to know you in muslim by my. name i and i was from the money that i'm going to live in a little more land now my long will be musical middle name where you don't. belong on the wall again until. the better leader than no more than a girl. in young child villages have been told to wait for us
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in a school whole watched over by mind as and armed police. inside the atmosphere is tense and few are willing to speak to us. i know you are. mohammad reyes is 22 years old no man on a ship and on a few sloman is really an army made out of militia or be brought it up the enemy me lies my music. they're going to order them over to throw the into the desert and i'm on. a need to help you know. you're from new york and. it's not part of the government site in a hurry but we managed to find the houses that were down. a village or approaches us. you know how it will be one end of the little mom.
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who is a bit of. a bomb it's been a. another villager tells us it's not safe for the writing to return. the emotion of it until noon. pulling up and i'm going up and home. it appears we've been spotted. among. people not know what. apollo 11 and. 4 don't. care when rakhine state can only speak in whispers or in private about the violence and discrimination they've had to endure. in the earlier on a local level. and journalists are closely watched over by government minders. we
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