Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure justice in Myanmar for Rohingya refugees.

We are clear that there must be accountability for the atrocities committed against the Rohingya by the Myanmar military. We continue to look at all options and work with international partners to ensure accountability. In September 2018, we worked through the UN Human Rights Council to establish a collect and preserve mechanism, this will ensure that evidence is retained for use in future prosecutions. We have used our role as penholder to raise this issue at the Security Council, including a briefing by the UN Fact Finding Mission.

The UK believes that the best hope for genuine accountability and reconciliation is a credible domestic process. We continue to push the Government of Myanmar to ensure that the domestic independent commission recognises human rights violations committed in Rakhine State. This would lay the groundwork for future accountability processes.