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Myanmar's military accused of genocide in damning UN report
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 27, 2018 08:05pm |
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| Category | Investigation |
| Author | Hannah Ellis-Petersen |
| News Date | Monday, August 27, 2018 08:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Myanmar’s military has been accused of genocide against the Rohingya in Rakhine state in a damning UN report that alleged the army was responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity against minorities across the country.
The UN report said it found conclusive evidence that the actions of the country’s armed forces, known as the Tatmadaw, “undoubtedly amounted to the gravest crimes under international law” in Rakhine as well as in Kachin and Shan, states also riven by internal conflicts.
The UN investigators were denied access to Myanmar by the government but interviewed 875 witnesses who had fled the country. They found that the military were “killing indiscriminately, gang-raping women, assaulting children and burning entire villages” in Rakhine, home to the Muslim Rohingya, and in Shan and Kachin. The Tatmadaw also carried out murders, imprisonments, enforced disappearances, torture, rapes and used sexual slavery and other forms of sexual violence, persecution and enslavement – all of which constitute crimes against humanity.
In northern Rakhine, the mission also found evidence of mass extermination and deportation. |
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