BROUK President Tun Khin has warned the UN Human Rights Council that a disturbing pattern of sexual and gender-based violence has emerged against Rohingya women and girls in Rakhine State, alongside forced recruitment and other escalating abuses against Rohingya communities.
“Rohingya have suffered through a decades-long genocide, affecting every aspect of their lives. The generations of Rohingya victims – whether still in Burma or living as refugees elsewhere – have a right to reparations, and we hope this case in Argentina will be the first real step towards that,” said Tun Khin, President of BROUK.
BROUK President, Tun Khin, joined the Rohingya delegation in The Hague during the public hearings at the International Court of Justice. Rohingya voices at the Court were crucial in ensuring that lived experiences and demands for justice and accountability were present, while also reminding the world that for the Rohingya, the genocide has not yet ended.
This week, public hearings began at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Gambia v. Myanmar, concerning Burma’s responsibility for genocide against the Rohingya. At the ICJ, cases are brought against States, not individuals, meaning Burma (Myanmar) is answerable as a State for crimes committed against the Rohingya by the Burmese military and other state authorities.
“After six long years, Burma will finally have to answer before the Court for the crimes of 2017,” said Tun Khin, President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK). “But the genocide against the Rohingya has far from ended. Rohingya continue to face atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Rakhine/Arakan, while more than one million people remain forcibly displaced and denied their right to return home.”
The report comes just days after a new UN hunger hotspots assessment warned that Buthidaung Township in northern Rakhine State is at imminent risk of ‘IPC Phase 5 Catastrophe/Famine’ – the same classification currently applied in parts of Gaza. A military-imposed trade and aid blockade- combined with severe restrictions by the Arakan Army- is preventing life-saving humanitarian assistance from reaching Rohingya communities.
Drawing on first-hand documentation from Rakhine State, gathered despite severe access and communication restrictions imposed by both the Burmese military and the Arakan Army, the report exposes how starvation and forced labour are being used as tools of erasure against the Rohingya. With the Arakan Army now controlling large parts of Rakhine State, Rohingya are facing two oppressors instead of one.
On 2 October 2025, BROUK President Tun Khin joined leading human rights experts and advocates in Washington D.C. for the launch of “Critical Crossroads: Genocide Risk Assessment for Burma’s Minority Communities.”
The long-awaited United Nations High-Level Conference on the Situation of the Rohingya and Other Minorities in Myanmar, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, was convened to refocus global attention on the ongoing crisis and to seek concrete, time-bound steps toward justice, protection, and lasting solutions.
The meeting reaffirmed the world’s concern but fell short of delivering the decisive action the situation demands. As Wai Wai Nu, founder of the Women’s Peace Network, reminded delegates in one of the conference’s most powerful interventions:
“You already have the evidence. You already have the power. What is missing is the political will. The people of Myanmar demand accountability and an end to impunity.”
Her words echoed the central message of the day: while awareness of the crisis is high, political will remains painfully absent.
BROUK President Tun Khin Speaks at UN Side Event on Rohingya Protection and Justice
BROUK President Tun Khin joined global human rights leaders at a high-level side event on the Rohingya crisis, organised by the Women’s Peace Network during the UN General Assembly week in New York.
