UN investigators say genocide is still taking place against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

UN investigators have said, genocide is still taking place against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Speaking at the United Nations yesterday, chair of the UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar, Marzuki Darusman said, thousands of Rohingya are still fleeing to Bangladesh. He said, the government is not interested in establishing a fully functioning democracy in the country.

The UN Special Investigator on Human Rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee said, she and many others in the international community hoped the situation under



Aung San Suu Kyi would be vastly different from the past, but it is really not that much different from the past.

 

Suu Kyi's government has rejected independent international investigations into the alleged abuses and has commissioned its own probe. The government has also rejected the report by the mission, led by Darusman, which said some top military leaders should be prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Rohingya during the crackdown.