Myanmar's government rejects UN
report
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| Myanmar Commander-in-Chief, enior General Min Aung Hlaing aand other senior military officials.- AFP |
The Myanmar government has rejected a UN report released on
Monday which called for top military figures to be investigated for genocide
against the Rohingya minority.
By Nathan Morley
The government in Myanmar rejected a United Nations' report
on mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya, saying they didn’t agree or accept
any resolutions made by the Human Rights Council.
"We didn't allow the FFM (the UN Fact-Finding Mission)
to enter into Myanmar, that's why we don't agree and accept any resolutions
made by the Human Rights Council," Government spokesman Zaw Htay told
local media.
Htay added that the government had set-up its own
‘Commission of Enquiry’ to respond to allegations made by the UN.
The report called for officials from Myanmar to face
genocide charges over their campaign against the Muslim minority. Marzuki
Darusman, the mission's chairman, said his researchers amassed evidence based
on hundreds of interviews with witnesses and victims, satellite photos, and
verified pictures and moving images.
UN investigators said they had discovered that Myanmar's
army had taken actions that amounted to the gravest crimes under international
law, as more than 700,000 Rohingya started fleeing at the end of last summer.
The UN team said victim accounts were amongst the most
shocking human rights violations they had come across.
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