8/8/22, 9:18 PM New evidence shows how Myanmar's military planned the Rohingya purge Bill Wiley, the Canadian founder and director of CIJA, says he is confident the Myanmar material will help with prosecutions. “If anyone’s ultimately convicted of genocide, it’s going to be based on the CIJA-collected materials,” he told Reuters. Wiley, a veteran of the Rwanda and Yugoslavia war crimes tribunals, is a former Canadian military officer. In his office, cloaked in a cloud of cigar smoke, Wiley, who is 58, recalled being contacted by Canadian officials at the height of the Rohingya exodus.  Bill Wiley, the Canadian founder and director of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, in the organization’s evidence store room. Wiley says international criminal justice is a “long game.” REUTERS/Rodrigo Antunes The foreign minister at the time and current deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, set up a working group of people from different government departments to tackle the crisis, he said. The brief was to “do something,” Wiley said. Because Canada helped fund CIJA in Iraq and Syria, the group asked him if he could replicate the model in Myanmar. Freeland’s office confirmed the account but declined to comment further. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-rohingya-warcrimes-investigation/ 15/34