Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Laura Smith and Mark Field

Tuesday 9th January 2018 Commons Chamber

[Laura Smith (Crewe and Nantwich) (Lab)]

T7. Research conducted by the International State Crime Initiative found examples of four of the six stages of genocide being carried out in Rakhine state against the Rohingya people. What assessment has the Foreign Secretary made of the potential for the other two stages—extermination and “symbolic enactment”—to occur?

[The Minister for Asia and the Pacific (Mark Field)]

I hope the hon. Lady will be assured that we are keeping abreast of the issue of genocide or any sort of referral to the International Criminal Court. It is obviously difficult because Burma is not currently a member of the ICC. We are working with other countries at the UN to ensure that the very real concerns she expresses are put into place.