sixty eight. stores in the first. this is d w news alive from bird lane u.n. investigators call for genocide charges against myanmar as military leaders in a damning report on myanmar's crackdown on the broken just the u.n. says that military commanders must be investigated for crimes against humanity. also coming up here in germany hundreds joined far right protest in the eastern

city of ten minutes after the fatal stabbing of the german national assyrian and then the rocky man have appeared before a german court in connection with the death. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program united nations investigators have released a damning report tommy on mars military calling for the prosecution of its commanders for crimes against humanity the investigators say that the military orchestrated a campaign against the country's will hinge on muslims with quote genocidal intent now myanmar's brutal crackdown against the rohinton began a year ago the ensuing campaign of arson rape and murder prompted some seven hundred thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh. un investigators have made it clear to me and most high ranking military officials must pay for what

they're now calling actions with quote genocidal intend. the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top top model or generals in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes the u.n. used to call the treatment of the rohingya and a textbook example of ethnic cleansing monday's report is however the strongest condemnation so far based on interviews with over eight hundred victims and witnesses the report detailed a list of crimes committed against the hen jeff murder and false disappearance toucher and large scale gang rape the way in which sexual violence has been taking place in myanmar is particularly brutal and take it from a former special rapper tour and violence against women. the scale of brutality and

systematic nature of rape and violence indicate that they are part of a deliberate strategy to intimidate to punish the civilian population there used as a tactic. investigators are referring to the brutal crackdown against muslims last august fearing for their lives around seven hundred thousand of them fled to neighboring bangladesh now confined to crowded basic cambs many of the u.s. you findings. i'm very happy about the. tens of thousands of our people. killed our children and. of course we want justice for this. they must be punished by torture us because we are muslims and we read and learn that first as they have nothing against any of the other one hundred thirty five ethnic groups and me and we are the only muslim community and they don't want us here un investigators say six military leaders and now the priority subjects for

prosecution including commander in chief mean online but they say impunity in the country has placed the military about the law so the impetus for accountability must come from the international community. and for more on that i am joined now by christopher dominic's at r.t. who we just heard from in that report and who was one of the three members of the u.n. fact finding mission thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and i'd like to begin by asking you how difficult was it to gather facts for this report and get an accurate picture of the situation there in myanmar. the actual gathering of facts was not so difficult there are one point two million people in the camps. camps in bangladesh there are many tens of thousands or hundreds of them sent in camps in thailand or who have fled to malaysia and to into

the nation so as you indicated we interviewed one hundred seventy five victims and survivors and eye witnesses as well as collecting it an enormous amount of evidence . imagery video and photographs that we were able to verify a great deal of research. the challenge for us was was not the gathering facts so much as an adult a lot of the action and looking at what we could establish and corroborate and what simply were assertions that we were unable to prove were right and then doing the analysis all that was a challenging task absolutely and as you were pouring through that evidence as you were making those assertions you were acting there is a representative the end of the united nations but if possible i'd like to ask you about your personal experience as well what was the most shocking part of this mission for you we three members of the fact finding mission was supported by around about fourteen or fifteen stop off.

it's collecting the information but we as well which we went to of course is bizarre on two occasions and on the dish to thailand indonesia malaysia united kingdom talking to people who have fled and the must confront in part for us is listening to these personal accounts. one of the members of the fact finding mission rather good camera swami from sri lanka former special rapporteur on violence against women mainly listen to women who had recently fled this was lost of time so soon after they had fled from rakhine state and the stories that cheated were not just dramatic but traumatic traumatizing. and for me it was my duty listening to some of the kids a large number of the asylum seekers not only in bangladesh but also in thailand and malaysia children and often unaccompanied children something like sixty percent

of the one point two million people in the case in bangladesh the children and the story. i think to me i mean on the phone really brutal and you can't listen to what's happened to kids without thinking about your own kids in the same situation and interestingly i mean you know given that given how grave some of those abuses are that you detail in this report your report claims to have found evidence in fact of genocidal intent which is a very specific term if you could just walk our viewers through what that means and what implications you believe this carries for both the myanmar government and for the international community. genocidal intent is a very specific term but it's part of the legal requirement to constitute the crime of genocide we looked generally at crimes under international law and the three remains a cat of crimes under international genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes

and we found in many areas may just reconstitute if it were the sense of crimes against crimes and in addition to requite rakhine state we examine the situation of genocide and genocide on my calories national crimes requires proof of a specific purpose this is called genocidal intent the actions must be undertaken to destroy a group in whole or in part and we looked at all of the surrounding circumstances we looked at the decisions taken by other international tribunals that have examined genocide in the past particularly in relation to rwanda and former yugoslavia and we saw in rakhine state many of the same color lines of circumstance and statements by military commanders and put right is a general situation of oppression of a minority group in the use of hate speech. and widespread nature of the

violence the evidence that these things have been planned in advance and studied them were committed quite deliberately all these factors have in the past and the international tribunals and make a finding of genocidal into. a damning assessment and your calling we know for you know more to be done here and we very much appreciate you joining us on our air to discuss this christopher adamic set out see who we've mentioned as was one of the three members of the u.n. fact finding mission thank you so much thank you very much. thank you so much for staying with us and we apologize there were some audio issues in that past interview but in the meantime we're going to get a check now of some other stories making news around the world here on d.w. russian opposition leader alexina vali has been sentenced to thirty days in prison for organizing a rally in late january against the country's presidential elections and a volley spokeswoman said that the sentence was clearly time to prevent him from

attending another protest which he has called for next month. iran has taken the u.s. to the international court of justice in a bid to have u.s. sanctions lifted iran's legal team called washington's decision to reimpose sanctions earlier this year quote naked economic aggression to iran is asking the court to order that sanctions be suspended for as long as is the case as the case goes on which could be years. in germany a syrian and iraqi national have appeared in court in connection with the killing of a german national early on sunday morning the incident sparked a violent far right protest in the east german city of cabinets police said that a crowd of some eight hundred far right demonstrators refused to disperse and marched through the city center the german government has sharply sharply condemned these actions of the protesters who reportedly targeted people that they believed to be foreigners. far right demonstrate

his clash with police in kemet city center. versus bottles leading to more officers being drafted in from neighboring dresden and like to to curb go down start. this is a policy they chant in this video shed on twitter. they're protesting against what they see as a rise in crime committed by foreign it's. beyond rest follows the death of a thirty five year old german man in the early hours of sunday during this is he's on you will street festival he died from his injuries in hospital after being attacked with a knife. two of a man was seriously injured. state prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for two men from iraq and syria. government spokesperson. stressed that the events in cannot have no place in

a democratic society. this is which the feebleness figure it's important for the government as it is for all democratic politicians and for most of the population as well i think to state clearly we do not accept marauding riots like these nor the hounding of people who look different or come from somewhere else and no attempts to spread hate on the streets this has no place in our cities we and i can certainly say this for the government utterly condemn that kind of behavior. tension on the east and german city of cam that's has yet to come down with further demonstrations from both right and left wing groups going forward this evening. let's get more now i am joined by political correspondent oliver salat so how much should we know about the circumstances of the killing that triggered this weekend's far right protest what we know that early sunday in the eastern german city of chemists a syrian and iraqi citizens were getting into an argument with

a german citizen and then the migrants pulled out a knife allegedly stabbed the german and he later died of his injuries there was a rumor which says that the migrants responded or were harassing a woman the police said that they could not confirm that the investigation could not confirm these rumors the prosecutor said that they attacked the german citizen without proper reason and they were taken into custody now and then as a result of the violent protests erupted in the city of chemists of police were struggling to get these protesters under control and that was just a press conference by the police of sex and money and they called this protest that we witnessed yesterday a new level of escalation so the suspects as you mentioned syria and iraq and we're seeing the far right seize on this in a very big way right that's correct and that's what we're experiencing right now

still there are new protests right now as we speak the far right to get a movement taking to the streets the second day now and they're also teaming up with the far right if tea party planning some further protests are going to take place on saturday and certainly these incidents are playing into the hands of the far right basically their argument has always been that because of the open door policy off the german government because of the refuse the well coming refugee policy there since two thousand and fifteen that because of that germany has become a more unsafe place and that this is what we are witnessing right now is an allegation of course that cannot be proved totally. certainly the problem is that we witness the mob justice fraud and it is an allegation that we have been seeing for years we've seen the far right growing in the country recently why is that tell us just briefly well interesting lee eastern germany has less migrants than the west but this is exactly where these far right movements peta and the a of the

strongest no there are certain takes to look at this one is historically that for instance eastern germany had less migrants than western germany but to the overall question certainly how can we cope with this political correspondent oliver salat bringing us up to date on this thank you so much. and with that you are up to date now on t.w. news i'm sarah kelly in berlin don't forget we will have another news update at the top of the hour i hope to see you then have a great day. first economy was. sure is grand ole miss arrives. on her journey back to freedom. you know work interactive documentary. you know regular returns home on the w. don't come to tanks.