00:00The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he would seek an arrest warrant
00:05for Myanmar's military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity over the alleged
00:09persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority.
00:13A panel of three judges will now decide if they agree there are reasonable grounds to
00:17believe General Min Aung Hlaing bears criminal responsibility for the deportation and persecution
00:22of Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
00:25It generally takes around three months to rule on issuing an arrest warrant.
00:29A spokesperson for Myanmar's ruling junta did not answer calls for comment.
00:33More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh during the campaign which the
00:38United Nations investigators said was carried out with genocidal intent.
00:43Buddhist Majority Myanmar denies accusations of genocide, saying it carried out military
00:48operations against terrorists.
00:51Myanmar is not a member of the treaty-based ICC, but the court has jurisdiction over alleged
00:55cross-border crimes that partially took place in neighboring ICC member Bangladesh.
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