Asean criminal court needed


  • Letters
  • Saturday, 10 Dec 2016

THE time has come for the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) to strongly consider establishing its own criminal court at the regional level to protect the interests of its 650 million people and guarantee their human rights.

The necessity for such a court comes amid the ongoing inhumane treatment, persecution and possible ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.

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