A prestigious European Community for help acceptance of ongoing crimes. By british welcome to news asia glad you could join us un human rights chief has condemned for inaction in Holding People accountable for crimes against iran your muslim and other minorities speaking of the Human Rights Council on monday she also said that recent civilian casualties in myanmar may constitute war crimes. From that record seen. In the communities are increasingly affected by the Armed Conflict in iraq and states including through disappearances and its the racial killings of civilians massive civilian displacement arbitrary arrests torture and their custody under the struction of civilian property. Civilian casualties have often been increasing in some cases they appear to have been targeted or attacked indiscriminately which may constitute a war crimes or even crimes against humanity. And its these crimes that prompted more than 700000 to flee to overcrowded refugee camps in neighboring bangladesh 3 years back but faced with extremely poor Living Conditions and a lack of opportunities many have attempted to make dangerous sea crossings to countries like malaysia and indonesia just last week nearly 300 finally able to reach land in a province in indonesia after spending some 200 days at sea this is the story of what theyve barely lived through. This was the night their ordeal ended but theres no joy on the faces of these women men and children only fatigue and despondency. Their journey started in coxs bizarre the Worlds Largest refugee camp in bangladesh people smugglers had promised them a better life in malaysia and to take them there safely. But what followed was more than 6 months crammed into a small wooden boat adrift in the open sea with little food and water. Pollution the broker took our money and kept us waiting for 7 months then he bought a small boat and we started sailing. Then they abandoned us we floated for several months until we reached this area. Days after coming ashore in sumatra the migrants are still exhausted but at least alive. The United NationsMigration Agency says more than 30 people died during the journey and one woman the day after. We watched people die several people. I thought i would die too. I only kept praying to allah. The survivors are safe at a shelter today theyve been given food and drink and access to much needed medical care. The question now is whether theyll be able to remain in indonesia or become yet more and one to grow hindraf refugees. For more lets bring in a film robertson his deputy assured director of Human Rights Watch every drop in our from bangkok world how is it possible that 300 during your refugees remote sea for more than 200 days at a time that the plight is the subject of international concern. Well it is extraordinary and this group of rohingya on that boat were pushed off by thailand and by later they were basically sent back out to sea rather than allowed to land and be brought ashore and provided protection so became the final place that they could actually try to get ashore and fortunately the local authorities agreed to allow them come ashore and taking care of them what does that say about the International Response to the crisis and the atrocities and really having to face well what it shows is the front line states particularly in Southeast Asia are essentially trying to maintain its not their problem theyre trying to push it off on each other and unfortunately what were also seeing is a lack of political will within the region to support the kind of action thats needed to hold on maher accountable the high commissioner for human rights has raised just yesterday number of very very serious points about the continued rights abuses in Rakhine State the lack of. Possibility of war refugees to return to that situation even the government of myanmar rasing the villages from the maps and the response of the countries in the region is to simply shrug and push these boats off and i just speak about the myanmar government specially about the mission vashon it was talking about yesterday bedding that in mind is it realistic to expect that the myanmar government will ever take any action against the army. Well we expect that ultimately the myanmar government will be compelled to act through the International Criminal court in the International Court of justice i think that ultimately these International Accountability mechanisms are the thing thats going to compel Political Action by the myanmar government the open question of course is whether myanmar government can exercise its will over the military or whether this military will continue to be a rogue element that does whatever it wants to the people of myanmar when its operating in the field and that is something that the International Community has to respond to there has to be real serious action at the u. N. Security council to take the next steps to hold that more marmie accountable we leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us from robots and from Human Rights Watch. And questions of accountability adults are being raised of me and myles de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi the human rights icon has been criticised most recently by the European Parliament for not speaking up on the rohingya issue it has now suspended her from the subtle fries community. Along deferred tribute finally taking place on sun suchi at the European Parliament in 2013 collecting her human rights prize 23 years after shed won it that honor has now been hollowed out. Citing lack of actions and acceptance of ongoing crimes the European Parliament has suspended suchi from the sucker off prize community effectively banishing her from the circle of honorees how did it come to this fall from grace for decades on sun suchi was regarded as the voice of peaceful resistance to myanmars military dictatorship she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 her advocacy of democratic reform earned her a total of 15 years under house arrest these images show her emergence from one such confinement in 1995 and the hopes she embodied seem to have come true when her party the n l d won a landslide victory in elections in 2015 she was barred from running for president but a position created for her made her the de facto head of government. The following year her partys delegates took their seats in myanmars parliament. Then the halo slipped. In late twentys 16 myanmars army and police launched a crackdown on the rohingya people and ethnic and religious minority in the countrys north east saying they were fighting militants troops systematically destroyed rohingya villages and allegedly conducted mass executions and rapes hundreds of thousands of rohingya fled to neighboring bangladesh where most remain in refugee camps today. Suchi has not so much as criticized this campaign although it bears the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing at the International Court of justice last year she defended the same military that once persecuted her she questions rohingya accounts of atrocities and refuses to even speak their name suit shes record since taking office has lost her many of the honors once heaped on or now europe has turned its back on her to the ground so how did it come to this and what do you want to because it is from d. W. Issue an old salt of the book the daughter of a political biography of. A rodeo on what you ought to do quick to on a aung san suu genie. So i dont think so it was too quick we have to think back it was 990 when she was awarded with the soccer of price of the European Parliament and what has happened before so 19882 years ago there was a student uprising in myanmar and she became like the most important person bringing together all the different political fractions and groups like the students the teachers and she became like the head or the leading figure of this movement then a military government took over and. Squashed the protests and then there were have been elections one year later and to the surprise of the military government also in sochi and her party won that election by a landslide and the military government did not hand over power they rejected the transfer of power and put you under house arrest so this is still a situation where we when she got the prize and i think she got the prize not for what you achieved but it was more like a bet on the future but the west made this fairy tale around here and she became really almost superhuman human rights i couldnt write so but you know theres a lot of sort of afterthought talking about betting on the future and making her a fairy tale i. Do think that your. Bet on her ahead of time and has that bred paired off. So in 2011 when the country opened up and when she come to came to power and she became state council after more or less free and fair elections. She was not able to deliver so i think she has been compared to monday lobby for Nelson Mandela from south africa but he was not only a good opposition politician but he became a very powerful politician delivering a lot of progress and development to south africa its not the same with me with Aung San Suu Kyi and me and mom she has had problems delivering and keeping up to the high expectations. This is in regards to the Peace Process in the country to end the civil war which rages since the 2nd world war more or less this has been regarding Economic Development and last but not least because of the crisis which started in 2016 and in 2017 pushed more than 700002 neighboring bangladesh so i think she was not able to deliver and she did not keep up to the expectations. Your doing over cause im tired so much for your insights. Thats it for now well see you back here tomorrow the same time. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona. 19 special and next on d w. Im not going to think out of the well i guess sometimes i am but i found nothing when. The german thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes question if you think the future of the country that i not. Even seen will take from this drama there. Its all that. I might show me for me into sunday. Post. Case loads have been lower than forecast but the pandemic is hitting africas economy hard disrupting tourism and other crucial sectors. With work at a standstill for many theres less money for food and shelter here in the Lavender Hill section of cape town volunteers are ever present to feed the homeless and children. Fictions are on the rise and lives are becoming more precarious. The pandemic meanwhile rages across the african continent cases in algeria and egypt are on the decline but theyre ticking up in morocco and tunisia. What would another wave of covert 19 mean for region already so hard hit. Hello and welcome to the covert 19 special m c. Its good to have you with us 3000000 people in south africa have lost their work because of the pandemic as a result many have lost their homes correspondent major increase takes us to one of the many shanty towns now popping up across the country. Khayelitsha the largest township in cape town more than 1000000 people live here including the leak of elin a month ago she could no longer afford to rent and simply built her own hearts on a vacant lot next door. Hundreds of others to pursue and christened the new neighborhood of it 19. Because everything does have been because of this covered there were lost jobs nothing for us to miami anything then thats why we have to take that one to me. Shows us the makeshift hart where she lives with her boyfriend and 3 children. This place is too small of one bed so were going to sleep you see my house is also. I dont have anything to solve at the moment. But im still. The family pays no rentier but the land doesnt belong to them. People are setting up their shacks all over the place the a lot of construction happening and many here are saying they dont have a choice because they cant afford to pay rent any longer but the city on the other hand says these illegal and invasions are causing huge problems city officials tell us there have been more than 30 new locations with massive land occupations in just the last 6 weeks law and order are in danger cape town lost 300. 00 hectares of land in the last year what ever the land was meant for is lost whether it is all spittle or screw clinic if a piece of land is standing open its because there is an intended Community Use for that and there is in the case of these big invasions where i will tell you that Community Leadership in cali just stood up this is not a fight to be a land invaders against the state or land invaders against the city of quetta this is a fight of land invaders against a city of character and local residents since june the city says it has torn down some 60000 hearts in some cases resulting in violence this man was pulled out of his hat snake at a court has now ruled that the city needs a court order for eviction and must offer alternative accommodation to squatters. Structures for the city cant afford that 400000 people are already on the waiting lists for social housing that housing waiting list doesnt get shorter and the reason it doesnt get shorter is because theres constantly people pushing in the front if you were standing in a queue in a bank or at a cinema with theatre or something and you never got to the front because people were constantly pushing in the front you would become very angry and enraged. Everything annie and her family have also been hoping for an apartment from the state for a long time so far in vain. The government will provide our needs because we need Something Like toilets or what. We have to get the we have to get them from the government itself if we have to leave in this place we have to. Because when we need to go to the loo oh you want to do the number 2 you have to take the bucket and then you dig the so that place is going to be full of all those things. You can go to the. People who are building they are. Convinced that she will continue to live here in the future a court order for eviction takes up to one and a half years the police are not intervening for the time being and around her the settlement continues to grow. So its not just shelter thats been thrown into question because of the pandemic food is also becoming scarce or in parts of africa the central hell region is among the continents hunger hotspots more than half of the populations of mali burkina faso and the share suffers from Food Insecurity defined as the lack of regular access to the food they need in mali the trend is even getting worse and for more on this im joined by David Beasley the executive director of the World Food Program he joins me from berlin dave its good to see you as always when we talk about Food Insecurity this term help us understand what that looks like on the ground for someone in mali or save faso. Well its not good at all i mean did it was already bad before code we had economic deterioration a lot of serious issues with the sri mr druce terrorist groups trying to exploit the situation and not the mission then Climate Change moving down and millions of people being displaced and all of a sudden co becomes right on top of that and so globally were seeing from and im not talking about people that are going to bit hungry im talking about people that are on the brink of starvation that number was 135000000 before would now we see that number spiking to 270000000 by the end of this year and you break that down into places like mali and Burkina Faso Nishi or in other regions of africa it really is a bad situation there were facing and and were facing it literally as we speak in this unfolding as we speak david in what ways is the pen dimmock itself affecting Food Supplies it doesnt really involve sickness necessarily does it. Well its a combination of factors i mean you know what were seeing to give it a good example in nigeria when they had a 5 week lockdown they had about a 1000 people die from code but we had a 1000000 people go into Food Insecurity because of the lot down is still where she an economic deterioration were seeing a spike in food prices throughout africa lack of access economic theory ation loss of jobs you know if you do a lot down in the city in berlin people get food in their pantry for a week or 2 but a lot of these places they live hand to mouth day to day so if you do a lot dan you got to make certain that we have a Safety Net Program in place if you dont if we dont address this right you will leave the headmaster our patient masti stabilization or mass migration in a salon cheaper to go in and help the people who need help during this extremely difficult what exactly is needed to improve the situation talk about going in what kind of resources do you need and how close are you to getting it. Well youre not talking about a few 100000000. 00 come of billions of dollars around the world but particularly in africa if we get the right money right now we can come in because were actually the supply chain for cove at this point in time you know with the airline interest shutting down so were moving cope with supplies moving in food doing what we can do to make certain that we dont have export bans shut down additional points because if you do you might not get se