Fortify Rights released They Gave Them Long Swords, documenting alleged preparations for attacks on Rohingya Muslims and identifying officials for investigation. It called for international criminal accountability and a Security Council referral to the ICC. The report challenged explanations presenting atrocities as spontaneous communal conflict. Its conclusion about reasonable grounds for investigation was not a criminal conviction of the officials named.
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Fortify Rights’ report itself convicted the officials it identified for investigation.
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The report documented alleged preparations for attacks and called for accountability. An NGO’s reasonable-grounds assessment is different from a criminal conviction.