UN Warns of “Ongoing Genocide” against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims

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A genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims is still continuing, UN investigators warned Wednesday as they handed a report to the Security Council.

The investigators called for the issue to be referred to an international tribunal.

Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, said that beyond mass killings, the conflict included the ostracizing of the population, prevention of births, and widespread displacement in camps.

"It is an ongoing genocide," Darusman told a press conference.

"We consider the genocide intent can be reasonably inferred," he said as he presented the team's report to a United Nations Security Council meeting.

The 444-page report, first made public last month, called on the council to refer the issue to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, or to create an ad hoc tribunal, as was done with the former Yugoslavia.

The explosive report said that Myanmar's top generals, including Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide in Rakhine state.

Myanmar rejected accusations that its military committed atrocities in the crackdown last year that forced 720,000 Rohingya to flee over the border to Bangladesh.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team