Myanmar Army had ‘genocidal intent’

Myanmar Army had ‘genocidal intent’

News:

1. UN report says persecution of Rohingya Muslims amounted to ‘crimes against humanity’.

Important facts:

2. According to UN investigators, Myanmar’s military carried out gravest crimes against Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent”.

3. The UN report highlighted on the following aspects:

• UN report calls for the UN Security Council to set up an ad hoc tribunal to try suspects or refer them to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
• The Council should also impose an arms embargo on Myanmar and targeted sanctions against individuals most responsible for crimes.
• The report blamed Nobel Peace Prize winner Auug San Suu Kyi, for failing to use her “moral authority” to protect civilians.
• The report also criticized Facebook for allowing the world’s biggest social media network to be used to incite violence and hatred.
• However, Facebook responded by blocking Myanmmar officials and organizations found by the UN panel to have “committed serious human rights abuses”.
• The report pointed out that military action, which included the torching of villages, was “grossly disproportionate to actual security threats”.
• Commander-in-chief should step down pending investigation.
• The panel, interviewed more than 800 victims and witnesses in Bangladesh and other countries, analysed documents, videos, photographs, and satellite images.
• Decades of state-sponsored stigmatization against Rohingya had resulted in “institutionalized oppression from birth to death”.