UN launches investigation into Myanmar security forces’ torturing and raping

The top United Nations human rights body has agreed to send a fact-finding mission to investigate Myanmar security forces killing, raping and torturing Rohingya Muslims.

The top United Nations human rights body has agreed to send a fact-finding mission to investigate Myanmar security forces killing, raping and torturing Rohingya Muslims.

In a move bound to put pressure on State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, the 47-member UN Human Rights Council approved a resolution, without holding a vote, to “dispatch urgently” the crew to the war-torn Asian country.

The motion, brought by the European Union and countries including the US, called for “ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims”.

A UN report issued last month, based on interviews with 220 Rohingya among 75,000 who have fled to Bangladesh since October, accused Myanmar’s security forces of having committed mass killings and gang rapes in a campaign that “very likely” amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing.