National League for Democracy party defends Aung San Suu Kyi and Htin Kyaw from allegations of genocide

The National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which was Myanmar’s democratically-elected government ousted in the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, urged Argentina to reconsider arrest warrants for jailed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and former President Htin Kyaw.

“The court argued that beyond the discussion about whether or not the civilian government had control over the military during the ethnic cleansing operation, the reality is that the Rohingyas were being discriminated [against] in Rakhine State,” said Tomas Quintana, the former U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar and the legal representative for the case in Argentina brought by the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK).