A United Nations Fact Finding Mission report on Tuesday cited the slaughter in Min Gyi, in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine, as evidence that the army committed “the gravest crimes under international law” in clearance operations a year ago targeting the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. The three-person United Nations panel named Myanmar’s army chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, last month as one of six top commanders who should stand trial in an international court for genocide and crimes against humanity. The panel’s 444-page report, released on Tuesday, is one of the longest ever produced by a United Nations human rights inquiry. It said troops were reacting to attacks by Rohingya militants on border security police and several villages. The “Bengali problem” was an “unfinished job,” General Min Aung Hlaing said in a statement at the height of the clearance operations, the panel reported.

Source: bd News24 September 18, 2018 11:26 UTC