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Danmark intervenerer i sag om anklager om folkedrab begået af Myanmar ved Den Internationale Domstol i Haag

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Danmark har onsdag den 15. november valgt at intervenere i en sag anlagt af Gambia mod Myanmar ved Den Internationale Domstol i Haag. Det gør Danmark sammen med Canada, Frankrig, Nederlandene, Storbritannien og Tyskland.

I sagen anklager Gambia Myanmar for at have overtrådt sine forpligtelser under FN’s folkedrabskonvention for handlinger mod Rohingya-minoriteten i Myanmar.

Udenrigsminister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, udtaler:

”Alle stater i verden har en forpligtelse til at forebygge og bekæmpe af folkedrab. Det er en fælles opgave. Når Danmark nu deltager i denne fællesintervention ved Den Internationale Domstol er vi med til at sikre, at FN’s folkedrabskonvention bliver overholdt, og at militærregimet i Myanmar bliver stillet til ansvar for sine handlinger.”

Danmark støtter samtidig den uafhængige undersøgelseskommission for Myanmar (IIMM), som er nedsat af FN’s Sikkerhedsråd, med 2,5 mio. kr. Undersøgelseskommissionen i færd med at indsamle beviser, der skal dokumentere, om der er begået alvorlige internationale forbrydelser og brud på folkeretten.

I forbindelse med interventionen i sagen mod Myanmar har Canada, Danmark, Frankrig, Nederlandene, Storbritannien og Tyskland udstedt følgende fællesudtalelse:

“Today, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom filed a joint declaration of intervention in the case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice.

In these proceedings, The Gambia alleges violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention). It argues that Myanmar’s security forces perpetrate widespread and systemic “clearance operations” against the Rohingya, and that “genocidal acts committed during these operations were intended to destroy the Rohingya as a group, in whole or in part, by the use of mass murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence, as well as the systematic destruction by fire of their villages, often with inhabitants locked inside burning houses”.

Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are exercising the right to intervene in this case under Article 63(2) of the Statute of the Court in order to set out their interpretation of the relevant provisions of the Genocide Convention before the Court. They recall that the Genocide Convention requires States Parties to prevent the crime of genocide and hold those responsible to account.

Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom further reaffirm their commitment to accountability and the international legal order and stress the Court’s vital role in the peaceful settlement of disputes as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.”

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