Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to implement the recommendation of Amnesty International in its report We Will Destroy Everything: Military Responsibility for Crimes against Humanity in Rakhine State, Myanmar, published in June, that they work to get agreement in the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish new international accountability mechanism to hold to account those responsible for crimes against humanity in Burma.

​The UK co-sponsored the UN Human Rights Council resolution which set up a UN Fact Finding Mission on human rights abuses in Burma, and subsequent resolutions that gave it the mandate and resources to collect, preserve and share evidence. Following the Special Rapporteur's recommendations, the Government is discussing with international partners how to support evidence-collecting efforts, especially in relation to sexual violence. Pressure from the UN Security Council on accountability helped persuade Burma to announce plans for a Commission of Inquiry into violence in Rakhine State. We continue to emphasise that we need an accountability mechanism which is credible, transparent and impartial, and which can hold to account the perpetrators of atrocities.