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Position of Civil Society Organizations on the case against Myanmar by the International Court of Justice

January 22, 2020 All News, Crimes Against Humanity, Persecution of the Rohingya, The United Nations and Burma

Position of Civil Society Organizations on the case against Myanmar by the International Court of Justice regarding the potential indication of provisional measures to prevent genocide 

View PDF of statement here.

Political and military policies have always been imposed with violent force and intimidation upon the people of Myanmar, systematically and institutionally, on the basis of their political and religious beliefs and ethnic identities and continue until the present. 

Lessons from history have shown that the aforementioned acts of violence and intimidation were committed with impunity using mechanisms of political power and military might. The inability and incapability of Myanmar’s internal justice mechanisms enable perpetrators to continue to carry out such violent acts with impunity. 

Currently Myanmar is facing cases under the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC) according to international justice mechanisms, as the atrocities committed using political power and military might are not being addressed through internal justice mechanisms. We welcome and accept these cases as steps to protect the people of Myanmar and aid us in achieving democracy, rights and justice. 

We understand very clearly that the ICJ case against Myanmar is directed toward those responsible for using political power and military might, and not to the people of Myanmar. 

We believe that decisions made by the international court on matters related to acts committed using political power and military might are to bring forth the truth and serve to protect the people of Myanmar and aid us in achieving democracy, rights and justice. 

Therefore, we civil societies wish to declare our commitment to working together on the side of truth and justice according to international human rights standards. 

Endorsing CSOs 

1. Airavati Foundation 

2. Athan Freedom of Expression Activist Organization (အသံ) 

3. Bamaw Local Development Organization 

4. Bamaw Women Network 

5. Bee House 

6. Buram Monitor Research & Monitoring 

7. Can Bong Youth (Matupi) 

8. Chin Youth Organization (Matupi) 

9. Citizen’s Action for Transparency (CAFT) 

10. Community Response Group (ComReG) 

11. Democratic Education Corner 

12. Future Light Center (အနာဂတ်အလင််းတန််းဆံုံမှတ်) 

13. Gaia Organization (GO) 

14. Golden Heart Organization 

15. Htoi Gender Development Foundation 

16. Humanity Institute (ကချင်ပြည်နယ်) 

17. IFI Watch Myanmar 

18. Jeepyah Civil Society Development Organization – JCSDO 

19. Kachin State Women Network 

20. Kalyanameikta Development Organization (Khin U) 

21. Kanpetlet Land Development Organization 

22. Karen Rivers Watch 

23. Khamthar Farmers Union 

24. LAIN Technical Support Group 

25. La Ohn Aung Ja 

26. Mali NMai Women Network 

27. Matu Baptist Churches 

28. Matu Forum Committee 

29. Matu Social Welfare 

30. Matu Women Organization 

31. Men Fellowship (Matupi) 

32. Mon Women Network 

33. Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability of Ayeyarwady [Ayeyarwady MATA] 

34. Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability of Bago [Bago MATA] 

35. Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability of Karen [Karen MATA] 

36. Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability of Karenni [Karenni MATA] 

37. Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability of Mandalay [Mandalay MATA] 

38. Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability of Rakhine (Rakhine MATA) 

39. Myanmar Natural Resource and Environment Study Association 

40. Myanmar People Alliance (MPA) 

41. Peace and Rule of Law Accleration Network P.R.L.A.N 

ငငြိမ််းချမ််းရ ်းနှငူ့်တ ာ်းဥြရေစြိုံ်းမြိုံ်းမ ူ့ပမြှငူ့်တင်ရ ်းကွန် က ််) 

42. Shan Women Development Network 

43. Shwe Chin Thae Social Sercice Group (Shwebo) 

44. SKY – Youth (ရကျာက်ပ ြူ) 

45. Synergy Social Harmony Organization (Synergy လ မှုသဟဇာတ ရ ာ်ရဆာင်ရ ်းအ ွ ွဲ့) 

46. The Seagull: Human Rights, Peace & Development 

47. The Wings Institute 

48. Township Leading Group (Waingmaw) 

49. Transparency and Accountability of Kachin – TANK 

50. Uakthon Local Social Development Organization 

51. Waingmaw CSO Network 

52. Waingmaw Women Network 

53. Women Fellowship (Matupi) 

54. Yangon Watch 

55. ကရုံဏာလ မှုစည််းလံုံ်းညီညွတ်ရ ်းအသင််း (Karuna Mission Social Solidarity – KMSS) 

56. က င်နီလ ငယ်မျာ်းသမဂဂ (Union of Karen State Youth – UKSY) 

57. က င်နီအမျြိ ်းသာ်းလ ငယ်အစည််းအရံုံ်း (Karen National Youth Organization – KNYO) 

58. ကယန််းမျြိ ်းဆက်သစ်လ ငယ် (Kayan New Generation Youth – KNGY) 

59. ကယန််းအမျြိ ်းသမီ်းအစည််းအရံုံ်း (Kayan Women Organization – KyWO) 

60. ကယာ်းပြည်နယ်ရကျာင််းသာ်းသမဂဂ (Kayah State Student Union – KSSU) 

61. က င်လ ူ့အခွငူ့်အရ ်းအ ွ ွဲ့ (Karen Human Rights Group – KHRG) 

62. က င်သဘာဝြတ်ဝန််းကျင်နှငူ့် လ မှုရ ်းဆြိုံင် ာ လှုြ်ရှာ်းမှုကွန် က် (Karen 

Environmental and Social Action Network – KESAN) 

63. ကလျာဏမြိတတ ွံွဲ့င ြိ ်းရ ်းရ ာင်ရေ်းရှင််း (Kalyana Mitta Development Foundation – KMF) 

64. ကသာ စြိမ််းရ ာင်စြိုံအ ွ ွဲ့ 

65. ဆြိုံင်ြျန််း အင်စတီကျ (Hsaipen Institute) 

66. ဉာဏ်လင််းသစ် (Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica) 

67. တြိုံ်းတက်ရသာမွန်လ ငယ်မျာ်းအစည််းအရံုံ်း(Mon Youth Progressive Organization – MYPO) 

68. တြိုံူ့မျြိ ်းဆက်ကွန် က် (WE Generation Network) 

69. ထာ်းဝယ် ွံွဲ့င ြိ ်းရ ်းအ ွ ွဲ့ (Dawei Development Association – DDA) 

70. ေြိုံူ့ရပမကွန် က် (Land in Our Hands) 

71. ြညာအလင််းြွငူ့်ပမန်မာ သုံရတသနရ ာင်ရေ်းရှင််း (Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation – 

EMReF) 

72. ြွငူ့်လင််း ွံွဲ့င ြိ ်းရ ်းရ ာင်ရေ်းရှင််း (Open Development Foundation) 

73. ြရေသာမြိုံ်း လ မှုရ ်းအ ွ ွဲ့ (Badeidha Moe Civil Society Organization) 

74. ပြည်သ ူ့လှုြ်ရ ှားမှုပမြှငူ့်တင်ရရှားကွန်ရက် 

75. မွန်ပြည်လ ူ့အခွငူ့်အရ ်းရ ာင်ရေ်းရှင််း (Rehmonnya – Human Rights Foundation of Monland) 

76. က င်အမျြိ ်းသမီ်းအ ွ ွဲ့ (Karen Women’s – KWO) 

77. မွန်အမျြိ ်းသမီ်းအ ွ ွဲ့ (Mon Women’s Organization – MWO) 

78. မြိုံင််းြန်လ ငယ်အ ွ ွဲ့ (Mong Pan Youth Association) 

79. မျြိ ်းဆက်လှုြိင််း (Generation Wave – GW) 

80. မနတရလ်းလ ထုံရန ာ (Mandalay Community Center) 

81. မယ်ကေ (MACDO) 

82. ပမန်မာူ့ယဉ်ရကျ်းမှုသုံရတသနအသင််း (Myanmar Cultural Research Society – MCRS) 

83. ပမန်မာ-တရုံတ် ြြိုံက်လြိုံင််းရစာငူ့်ကကညူ့်ရ ်း ရကာ်မတီ (Myanmar-China Pipeline Watch Consortium 

– MCPWC) 

84. ပမန်မာနြိုံင်ငံ ြွငူ့်လင််းပမင်သာမှုနှငူ့် တာဝန်ယ မှု တာဝန်ခံမှုဆြိုံင် ာ အ ြ်ဘက်မဟာမြိတ်အ ွ ွဲ့ 

(Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability – MATA) 

85. ပမန်မာနြိုံင်ငံရကျာင််းသာ်းလ ငယ်မျာ်း ကွန် က် (Students and Youth Congress of Burma -SYCB) 

86. န်ကုံန်လ ငယ်ကွန် က် (Yangon Youth Network – YYN) 

87. လွတ်လြ်ရပမအ ွ ွဲ့ (FREELAND Organization) 

88. လ ူ့ရဘာင်သစ် ေီမြိုံကရ စီအင်အာ်းစုံ (ကသာ) 

89. သငူ့်ပမတ်သ မျာ်း၏ငငြိမ််းချမ််းရ ်းလမ််းစဉ်အ ွ ွဲ့ (Pace on Peaceful Pluralsim – POPP) 

90. သာသညူ့်ရပမရ ာင်ရေ်းရှင််း (Tharthi Myay Foundation) 

91. သံပ ြူဇ ြ်မွန်လ ငယ် 

92. အစြိမ််းရ ာင်ကွန် က် (ကသာ) 

93. အလင််းအြိမ် (Alin Ein) 

94. အလင််းရစတမာန်အ ွ ွဲ့ (Alinsaetamarn Library & Resource Center) 

95. အြိုံ်းရဝစာကကညူ့်တြိုံက်နှငူ့် ြညာေါနသင်တန််းရကျာင််း – သန်လျင် 

96. ဧ ာဝတီလ ငယ်ကွန် က် (Ayeyarwady Youth Network – AYN) 

97. ရဆွသဟာ (Swe Tha Har Organization) 

98. ရတာင်ြြိုံင််းလ ငယ်အ ွ ွဲ့ (Southern Youth Development Organization) 

99. ရြါင််းက ်း 

100. ရြါင််းစုံလုံြ်အာ်း အက အညီရြ်းရ ်းအ ွ ွဲ့ (Network Activities Group – NAG) 

101. ရေေါ လ မှု ွံွဲ့င ြိ ်းရ ်းအ ွ ွဲ့ (Bedar Social Development Group) 

102. ရမတတာ ွံွဲ့င ြိ ်းရ ်းရ ာင်ရေ်းရှင််း (Metta Development Founcation) 

103. ရလာကအလင််း 

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