- Hundreds of thousandsof Rohingya refugees

are languishing in campsduring the harsh monsoon

rainy season in Bangladesh.

Now the InternationalCriminal Court appears ready

to hold the Burmese governmentresponsible for their plight.

The ICC says there is sufficient evidence

to bring the Burmese government to trial

for committing atrocitiesagainst the Rohingya.

Joining us with more is Nicolee Ambrose

of the Faith Coalition ToStop Genocide In Burma.

Nicolee, why should the Burmese government

be held accountable?

Explain for our viewers what has happened

to this people group.

- Gary first of all as youknow from traveling there

the Burmese government isrun by the Burmese military.

They really control 75%or more of the country.

And they persecute anyonewho is not Buddhist.

88% of the country is Buddhist,

but you had over amillion Rohingya Muslims

before 2017 and four tosix million Christians.

These people have beenpersecuted for decades.

George W Bush's administrationput sanctions on 'em in 2003.

President Obama liftedthem in the fall of 2016

and since then it has, the onslaught,

the brutality has ramped up to the point

that that Burmese militarycreated a genocidal campaign,

chased out the remaining onemillion Rohingya Muslims.

And those same military divisions

that chased out theRohingya have repositioned

to go after the KachinChristians in the north.

But the problem is not onlyhas the Kachin been persecuted

there is nowhere for them to run.

They're between theborders of India and China.

- So you visited thoserefugee camps in Bangladesh.

Explain the conditions thatyou witnessed and saw there.

Also I understand thata trial may be held now

because of the ICC's rulings.

So if the Burmesegovernment is found guilty,

what would happen if anything?

I'm sure those peoplewouldn't be running back home

right away.

- Right, so I did visitthe camps this spring.

And I mostly met with women and children.

And the UN has found andthe US has found that

51 to 52% of the surviving womens,

many of them they slaughtered women.

The surviving women havebeen raped in those camps.

The people who struck me the most.

There was a 13 year old girl

and like many of the womenshe had been pulled out

in a group of five to six and brutalized

in ways we can't even imagineby ten soldiers at a time.

That was their MO.

And a sweet girl.

She reminded me of Princess Aurora.

'Cause she had this pink kindof gauzy princess dress on.

She now is treated for STDs in the camp.

The women she lives with have lost

almost all their children.

One woman lost every single child she had.

Another had one of her four children left.

And they saw their children slaughtered

before their eyes.

So at the UN level,

they have called it genocide.

They have the Commission On Human Rights

has issued a report ofwe are just about to

await our own State Departmenthas really commissioned

an atrocities reportthat Nikki Haley quoted

just over a week ago inthe UN Security Council.

So we know the figures are staggering.

We are hoping SecretaryPompeo will very shortly

release that report and makea declaration of genocide.

And then at the same time theInternational Criminal Court

has recognized jurisdiction on this case

because essentially the Burmese military

was chasing the Rohingyaacross into Bangladesh

which they compared toa cross border shooting.

So we're very much looking forward to

just justice for theseRohingya but at the same time

we need to make surethe Kachin and the other

Christians in the countryaren't slaughtered

because it looks like they are next

on the Burmese military's list.

- Well I'm sure the Burmese officials

would say the only reason they're fighting

these groups, the Rohingyaand then also the Kachin

is because they form militiasagainst the government.

What do you say to that?

- Well it's interesting.

There's several reports on this.

Before the Burmese militarybegan their onslaught,

at the end of August,

they landed on August 10th, 2017

and they confiscatedthings like kitchen knives

from the Rohingya.

So you know I wouldpersonally want to be able

to defend my family.

I don't think any of uswould object to that.

But this was a very calculated campaign.

This was planned.

Their state counselor Aung Suu Kyi

called it a stabilityand clearance operation.

And their leading general said

the operation is not yet done

in an early September update.

So I think there's a big difference

between defending yourself and genocide.

- And that's quite adissapointment for many of them

with Aung San Suu Kyi, theNobel Peace Prize winner,

pro democracy activist,

now very influential in the government.

I'm sure they're disappointed with her.

They expected more from her did they not?

- Incredibly disappointing.

I think certainly I'mguessing President Obama

and a few other people whohad been friends with her

in our government.

For example, John McCainhad been friends with

Aung Suu Kyi.

But they were disappointed.

Mccain at least admitted how far she fell.

This is a really importanttime to fix our US policy

on the situation,

to reverse those sanctionsthat Obama lifted.

And we as the US shouldnot allow genocide.

We should ask for full sanctions

with the exception of foodand medicine on Burma.

And today we call it Myanmar.

- I have to ask you about thetwo Reuters news journalists

who were found guilty and sentenced

to seven years in prison

for reporting the truthabout the Rohingya.

Now this isn't fake news folks.

This is, they were reporting the truth.

They did a little digging.

Found some victims of the genocide there.

What can you tell us?

Tell us a little more aboutthat and those journalists.

- So two journalists apparently had dinner

with some Burmese police officers.

And once again,

the country's controlled by the military.

So the military and the local police

work together on everything.

And they apparently slid into newspapers

that they had at the table,

some documents which talkedabout the Rohingya crimes.

I don't believe theinformation was inaccurate.

The government then went to frame

these two Reuters journalists

for having this information

and reporting on brutalitycommitted by the military

and the police.

And they were just sentenced

to seven years in jail for this.

I'm really hoping this gets a lot,

a lot more international attention.

Amal Clooney has signed onas one of their Barristers.

Lots of action there.

But I just wanna make sure everyone knows

you can follow us andeverything we are doing

because we are workinghard to get the story out.

If you think the only thing that is really

holding this issue backfrom getting attention

it needs is just knowledge

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