ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar military leader国际刑事法院检察官申请对缅甸军方领导人的逮捕令
Min Aung Hlaing accused of crimes against humanity over deportation and persecution of Rohingya minority因驱逐和迫害罗辛亚少数民族,敏昂莱被控犯有反人类罪
The prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) said he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, for crimes against humanity over the alleged persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority.国际刑事法院检察官表示,他将以迫害以穆斯林为主的少数民族罗兴亚人的反人类罪为由,申请对缅甸军事领导人敏昂莱的逮捕令。
A panel of three judges will decide if there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Gen Min Aung Hlaing bears criminal responsibility for the deportation and persecution of Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh.一个由三名法官组成的小组将决定是否有“合理的理由”相信敏昂莱将军对驱逐和迫害缅甸和孟加拉国的罗兴亚人负有刑事责任。
There is no set timeframe for their decision but it generally takes about three months to rule on issuing an arrest warrant.他们的裁决没有固定时限,但一般需要三个月左右的时间来裁定是否签发逮捕令。
A spokesperson for Myanmar’s ruling junta did not answer calls seeking comment from the military government immediately after the announcement.在国际刑事法院宣布申请逮捕敏昂莱后,缅甸军政府发言人没有接听要求军政府发表评论的电话。
The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that it was seeking the warrant after extensive, independent and impartial investigations. More applications for arrest warrants will follow, it said.国际刑事法院检察官办公室在一份声明中说,检察官办公室是在经过广泛、独立和公正的调查后申请逮捕令的。检检察官办公室表示,接下来还会申请更多的逮捕令。
More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh during the campaign which UN investigators said was carried out with “genocidal intent”.在这场联合国调查人员称带有“种族灭绝意图”的行动中,超过73万罗兴亚穆斯林逃往孟加拉国。
Myanmar denies accusations of genocide and has always maintained it does not target civilians, saying it carried out military operations against terrorists.缅甸否认种族灭绝的指控,并一直坚称自己不以平民为目标,称自己开展的是针对恐怖分子的军事行动。
Myanmar is not a member of the treaty-based ICC, but in 2018 and 2019 rulings judges said the court had jurisdiction over alleged cross-border crimes that partially took place in neighbouring ICC member Bangladesh, and said prosecutors could open a formal investigation.缅甸不是以条约为基础的国际刑事法院的成员,但在2018年和2019年的裁决中,法官表示,国际刑事法院对部分发生在邻国国际刑事法院成员孟加拉国的跨境犯罪指控拥有管辖权,并表示检察官可以展开正式调查。
“This is the first application for an arrest warrant against a high-level Myanmar government official that my office is filing. More will follow,” the ICC prosecutor’s statement said.国际刑事法院检察官在声明中说:“这检察官办公室提出的第一份针对缅甸政府高级官员的逮捕令申请。”