U.N. Team Condemns Myanmar’s Treatment of Rohingya as Genocide, Calls for Prosecutions

Country’s army chief and other top commanders should be prosecuted, the team says

Myanmar’s army chief  and other top commanders should be prosecuted for genocide against the country’s ethnic-Rohingya Muslims, investigators working for the United Nations’ human rights agency said Monday.

In some of the sternest language used to condemn a yearlong campaign of violence, the three-member fact-finding mission estimated that 10,000 people were killed, a figure they labeled as “conservative.” They also recommended that the matter be referred to the International Criminal Court or another special tribunal.

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