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SEEKING JUSTICE. A Myanmar national reacts during a press conference after filing a criminal complaint before the Department of Justice in Manila on Oct. 25, 2023. Five Myanmar nationals asked the DOJ to investigate alleged war crimes committed by 10 serving or former members of Myanmar’s military against the mainly Christian Chin minority.
The five Myanmar nationals are from western Chin state, but now live in Australia, Britain, Canada and India. The complaint alleged that members of Myanmar’s military killed a pastor and two church elders in Thantlang town in September 2021. Gilbert Andres, another Filipino lawyer representing the Myanmar nationals, said they filed the case in the Philippines because it would be easier to get testimony from witnesses in Myanmar, and Philippine law allowed for the prosecution of war crimes.
The toppling of Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government in a 2021 coup sparked a huge backlash and the military junta is now battling opponents across swaths of the country.
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