Myanmar generals must be tried for genocide against Rohingya – UN (Skynews)

Myanmar’s top generals must be prosecuted for genocide over the treatment of the Rohingya, according to a UN report.

Six generals should be tried over orchestrated gross human rights violations and abuses in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan states, an independent fact-finding mission found.

Hundreds of thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims fled across the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh after what many NGOs have described as ethnic cleansing.

Amnesty International said security forces carried out a “targeted campaign of widespread and systematic murder, rape and burning”. Read more

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