Myanmar's democratic camp has asked the International Criminal Police Agency to arrest Supreme Commander Min Aung Hlaing, the supreme commander of the military regime visiting Indonesia to attend the ASEAN Summit.
Local media reported that Interior Minister Lewin Korat sent a letter to Interpol yesterday from Supreme Commander Hlaing, urging him to:
The National Unified Government was formed on the 16th with the participation of the elected general election last year, street protest groups, and leaders of minority armed groups to confront the military regime.
When Supreme Commander Hlaing was in Jakarta to attend the ASEAN Summit, Secretary Ko Rat called for Interpol to work with Indonesian police to arrest him.
Supreme Commander Hlaing argued that in 2018, he was designated as responsible for cruelty against Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhain province, and the prosecution was raised by the UN Fact-Investigation Team.
He also stressed that Supreme Commander Hlaing was responsible for the deaths of 739 people and the arrest and detention of 3,000 after the coup, and that he must be tried in the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.
In this regard, the media reported that Korat also requested that Interpol issue a red wanted order to notify police around the world in order to bring Supreme Commander Hlaing to trial.
Amnesty, an international human rights organization, also urged yesterday that Indonesian authorities should investigate the anti-human behavior of Supreme Commander Hlaing as a party to the UN Convention on the Prevention of Torture.
Amnesty noted that as a party to the Convention, Indonesia has a legal obligation to prosecute suspects or extradite recruits on its territory.