YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's powerful army chief says the United Nations has no right to interfere in his country's sovereignty, a week after UN investigators called for him and other top generals to be prosecuted for "genocide" against the Rohingya. The UN team also criticised the Nobel laureate's government for "acts and omissions" during the Rohingya crisis that "contributed to the commission of atrocity crimes". The army chief made it clear that the Tatmadaw, as the military is known locally, has no intention of extracting itself from politics. The Rohingya languishing in refugee camps in Bangladesh refuse to return to a Myanmar that does not grant them citizenship. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, given the cold shoulder by the army chief on his visit to Myanmar last week, will chair a foreign ministers' meeting on the crisis later Monday in New York.

Source: Philippine Star September 24, 2018 09:22 UTC