"I assure you there will be no blaming of anybody, no finger-pointing..." said Rosario Manalo, head of Burma's latest Commission of Enquiry (CoE) into human rights violations in Arakan State, this week. Manalo's words confirmed what most observers already suspected: The CoE is the latest in a long tradition of Burmese Sham internal investigations. This latest development underlines the urgent need to collect, preserve, and analyze evidence of serious international crimes, and identify perpetrators for future criminal prosecutions in accordance with international law.
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