Myanmar generals had ‘genocidal intent’ against Rohingya, must face justice: U.N.

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A Rohingya refugee girl looks next to newly arrived refugees who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in Ukhiya on September 6, 2017.
More than 125,000 refugees have flooded across the border into Bangladesh. Most are Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority that the government of Buddhist-majority Myanmar largely does not recognise as citizens. / AFP PHOTO

UN inhestigators on Monday accused Myanmar’s military of mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent”.

Christopher Sidoti, Marzuki Darusman and Radhika Coomaraswamy, members of the Independent International Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar, therefore, emanded that the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for orchestrating the gravest crimes under law.

They also accused the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi of allowing hate speech to thrive, destroyed documents and failed to…



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