Myanmar yesterday rejected the United Nations rights council's decision to investigate allegations that security officers have murdered, raped and tortured Rohingya Muslims, saying the probe would only "inflame" the conflict.
The Geneva-based body agreed on Friday to "urgently" dispatch a fact-finding mission to the South- east Asian country, focusing on claims that police and soldiers have carried out violations against the Rohingya in Rakhine state.
The army crackdown, launched last October after militants killed nine policemen, has sent tens of thousands of Rohingya fleeing across the border to Bangladesh. Escapees have given UN investigators gruesome accounts of security officers stabbing babies to death, burning people alive and committing widespread gang rape. (Courtesy of straitstimes.com)
