ISLAMABAD – Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a “seriousrisk of genocide”, UN investigators said on Monday, warning therepatriation of a million already driven from the country by the armyremains “impossible”.
The fact-finding mission to Myanmar, set up by the Human Rights Council,last year branded the army operations in 2017 as “genocide” and called forthe prosecution of top generals, including army chief Min Aung Hlaing.
Some 740,000 Rohingya fled burning villages, bringing accounts of murder,rape and torture over the border to sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh,where survivors of previous waves of persecution already languish.
But in a damning report, the UN team said the 600,000 Rohingya stillinside Myanmar’s Rakhine state remain in deteriorating and “deplorable”conditions.
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“Myanmar continues to harbour genocidal intent and the Rohingya remainunder serious risk of genocide,” the investigators said in their finalreport on Myanmar, due to be presented on Tuesday in Geneva.
