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Today marks five years since the military in Myanmar began a sweeping campaign in northern Rakhine state which saw more than 700,000 Rohingya women, men and children flee for Bangladesh, joining hundreds of thousands of other Rohingya who fled the country in previous years due to political tensions.

To this day no one has been held accountable for the crimes committed against them in 2017, and still they are without protection. The International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar each have cases pending before them .

Antonia Mulvey is the founder of LAW – Legal Action Worldwide. She has been representing the Rohingya since 2018 and has interviewed hundreds of Rohingya when she was a UN investigator.

She told Newsday, "I was interviewing those women and children, they were demanding justice, asking for accountability, and at that time honestly, I thought how on earth will there be any cases for these people, any type of legal address, but 5 years on, there are multiple international justice procedures that are ongoing, and I can tell you for the community who are living in extremely challenging and difficult circumstances, this is really important, this is really vital."

(Photo by Munir uz zaman / AFP)

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