How To Move Forward. Yanghee Lee, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar

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"Speaking at the first day of the International Conference on Protection of Rohingya Survivors and Accountability for Genocide, professor and UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee delivered an inspirational opening keynote, calling Myanmar’s policies of persecution towards Rohingyas a classic genocide while exhorting activists in the audience – and on YouTube – to “call a spade a spade”. She invoked the inter-state treaty known as the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Lee rightly slammed the United Nations, particularly the Security Council, to discharge its founding charter, exposed the unconscionable presence of Myanmar solders among the UN Peacekeepers and destroyed the credibility of the United Nations. The two-day International Conference was at at Sogang University in Seoul, S. Korea, August 23-24, 2019..."

Creator/author: 

Yanghee Lee

Source/publisher: 

"FORSEA Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia"

Date of Publication: 

2019-08-29

Date of entry: 

2019-12-09

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  • Individual Documents

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Countries: 

Myanmar

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

video

Text quality: 

    • Good