DHAKA: Three Nobel peace laureates have called on Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a fellow laureate, to put an end to the “genocide” against the Rohingya minority.
Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland, Shirin Ebadi of Iran and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen on Wednesday ended a visit to Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
They vowed to bring the perpetrators of crimes to justice via the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Suu Kyi “must stop turning a deaf ear to the persecution of the Rohingya or risk being complicit in the crimes,” said Karman. “Wake up or face prosecution.”
If Suu Kyi fails to stop the killings, “her choice is clear: Resign or be held accountable, along with the army commanders, for the crimes committed,” added Karman.
Ebadi said Suu Kyi is “directly responsible.” The three laureates said they had written to her repeatedly urging her to stop the atrocities against the Rohingya, but received no reply.
The three laureates shared with reporters the experiences of Rohingya women they spoke with at the camps.
“My 18-year-old daughter had her breasts cut off and she died,” the laureates quoted a woman in Thyankhali camp as saying.
Maguire said: “The torture, rape and killing of any one member of our human family must be challenged, as in the case of the Rohingya genocide.”
Ebadi asked: “Where are the Muslims?” She urged them to make a “united effort to stop this crime.”
She added: “If today we turn a blind eye to these crimes, there will be many more like this in the future.”
The three laureates on Wednesday met with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and thanked her for her generosity toward Rohingya refugees.
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3 Nobel laureates slam Suu Kyi over Rohingya ‘genocide’
3 Nobel laureates slam Suu Kyi over Rohingya ‘genocide’
Police target Ukrainians and Russian in ransomware probe
BERLIN: Police have carried out raids against two members of a ransomware group known as “Black Basta” in Ukraine, and issued an arrest warrant for its Russian head, German prosecutors said Thursday.
The group is accused of using malware to encrypt systems and then demanding money to restore them.
Between March 2022 and February 2025, its members extorted hundreds of millions of euros from around 600 companies and public institutions around the world, the prosecutors said in a statement.
The victims were mainly “companies in Western industrialized nations” but also included hospitals and other public institutions.
As part of a coordinated operation between Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ukraine and Britain, police searched the homes of two Ukrainian suspects and seized evidence, the prosecutors said.
Investigators have also identified and issued an arrest warrant for a Russian citizen accused of being the founder and head of the group, they said.
German police named the suspect as Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov, 35.
Nefedov “decided on targets, recruited employees, assigned them tasks, participated in ransom negotiations, managed the proceeds and used them to pay the members of the group,” the police said.
The searches in Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv were directed against suspected members of the group accused of so-called hash cracking, a method of guessing passwords.
Ukrainian officials also searched the home of another member of the group near Kharkiv in August, whose job was allegedly to help ensure the malware was not detected by antivirus programs.
Black Basta extorted some 20 million euros ($23 million) from around 100 companies and institutions in Germany alone, the prosecutors said.
The group is accused of using malware to encrypt systems and then demanding money to restore them.
Between March 2022 and February 2025, its members extorted hundreds of millions of euros from around 600 companies and public institutions around the world, the prosecutors said in a statement.
The victims were mainly “companies in Western industrialized nations” but also included hospitals and other public institutions.
As part of a coordinated operation between Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ukraine and Britain, police searched the homes of two Ukrainian suspects and seized evidence, the prosecutors said.
Investigators have also identified and issued an arrest warrant for a Russian citizen accused of being the founder and head of the group, they said.
German police named the suspect as Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov, 35.
Nefedov “decided on targets, recruited employees, assigned them tasks, participated in ransom negotiations, managed the proceeds and used them to pay the members of the group,” the police said.
The searches in Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv were directed against suspected members of the group accused of so-called hash cracking, a method of guessing passwords.
Ukrainian officials also searched the home of another member of the group near Kharkiv in August, whose job was allegedly to help ensure the malware was not detected by antivirus programs.
Black Basta extorted some 20 million euros ($23 million) from around 100 companies and institutions in Germany alone, the prosecutors said.
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