In 2017, Burma’s military, led by Min Aung Hlaing, launched a series of attacks against the Rohingya, marked by mass killings, sexual violence, and widespread arson. The violence forced more than 700,000 people to flee their homes and seek refuge in Bangladesh.

Civil society groups note that Indonesia’s penal code incorporates the principle of universal jurisdiction, allowing officials to prosecute certain grave crimes regardless of where they were committed or the nationalities of victims.

To learn more about systematic discrimination and persecution against the Rohingya ethnic minority, watch former @OsloFF speaker @waiwainu.