A total of 35 Rohingya refugees have shared their harrowing experiences of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and arson in Myanmar with a 10-member International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday.
The team, headed by ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, visited several Kutupalong and Balukhali Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar from 10am till afternoon.
The ICC team said the Rohingyas may need to go to the International Court of Justice in The Hague in the Netherlands, to provide testimony, and urged them to make preparations for their potential visit.
Dhaka TribuneThey also said that some other officials may also visit to collect information from the refugees.
The ICC team was accompanied by two officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, an official of the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, Cox's Bazar.
Additional Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Khalid Hossain said that the delegation talked to 15 Rohingyas in camp no 1 in Kutupalang and 20 Rohingyas in camp no 12 in Balukhali and collected information.
Master Zubair, chairman of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, who talked to the delegation, said the ICC team was informed about the ethnic cleansing, torture, arson and deaths, and rapes in Myanmar.
A Rohingya woman, Jamalika said, she and some women of the camps told the ICC members about the rapes and killings in Myanmar.
The representatives of the ICC came to Cox's Bazar on Wednesday to investigate the torture and persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar.
They held a meeting with the Refugee Relief and Repatriation commissioner the same day.
