<h3><br />''</h3> <span style="color: #222222;">UN investigators called today for Myanmar's army chief to resign and for him and five other top military commanders to be prosecuted in an international court for genocide against the country's Rohingya minority.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''The call prompted Facebook, which has been criticised for allowing hate speech against the Rohingya to flourish, to ban the army chief and remove other pages tied to the country's military.&nbsp;Some 700,000 Rohingyas fled northern Rakhine state to Bangladesh after Myanmar launched a brutal crackdown in August last year on insurgents.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''Myanmar has vehemently denied allegations of ethnic cleansing, insisting it was responding to attacks by Rohingya rebels.<br />''<br />'' But today, a UN-backed fact-finding mission into violations in Myanmar said the country's top military generals, including Commander-in-Chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing, must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide in the north of Rakhine State.</span>
News On AIR | August 27, 2018 9:01 PM
Myanmar army chief must be prosecuted for genocide: UN