ICC Note: Several military leaders in Myanmar are being investigated for numerous violations of human rights against the citizens, including Christians who are a religious minority. Government officials are trying to justify the attacks they carried out against the affected communities by claiming that they were responses to security threats from rebel groups.

8/29/2018 Myanmar (Christian Post) – A U.N. fact-finding mission has recommended that Myanmar military leaders be investigated for genocidal acts against Rohingyas in the Rakhine state and crimes committed against Christians and other minorities in two other states.

In what is said to be the harshest U.N. condemnation of the situation in Myanmar, a new 20-page report from a mandated three-member fact-finding mission documented systemic murder, rape, sexual enslavement and other human rights abuses committed by the nation’s military forces (Tatmadaw) in the Rakhine, Shan and Kachin states.

The report, based on over 847 interviews, concludes that there is sufficient evidence to warrant the investigation and prosecution of six senior military officials in the Tatmadaw chain of command to “determine their liability for genocide in relation to the situation in Rakhine state.”

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