investigators say Myanmar should be referred to ICC or ad hoc tribunal created

A year ago, government troops led a brutal crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in response to attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on 30 Myanmar police posts and a military base. Some 700,000 Rohingya fled the crackdown and most are now living in refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. PHOTO:REUTERS

Myanmar Army Chief Min Aung Hlaing. PHOTO: REUTERS

Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with β€œgenocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for orchestrating the gravest crimes under law, UN investigators said on Monday.The civilian government led by A

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