<span style="color: #222222;">The Myanmar Government has appointed an independent commission to investigate alleged human rights abuses against the ethnic Rohingya minority. <br />''<br />''The 4-member panel announced yesterday includes, former Japanese ambassador to the United Nations and former UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs,Kenzo Oshima,  former Philippine Vice Foreign Minister,Rosario Manalo, former  chief of Myanmar's Constitutional Court,Mya Thein and Aung Tun Thet, an economist and former UN official.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Myanmar's security forces are accused of massacres during a crackdown following attacks on police posts by a Rohingya armed group last year. <br />''<br />''Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled northern Rakhine state to Bangladesh since crackdown.</span><br />'' <br />