Suhakam chairperson Rahmat Mohamad said he is not an opponent of the Rome Statute.

Rather, he said, the reason he co-authored a paper objecting to Malaysia’s ratification of the Rome Statute in 2019 was that he felt the necessary preparations were not completed at the time.

“People misunderstood me, (they think) that I am an opposer of the Rome Statute. No, it is not that..