UN CALLS FOR MYANMAR CHARGES

MYANMAR’S military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent”, and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for the gravest crimes under international law, UN investigators say.

A report by investigators was the first time the United Nations has explicitly called for Myanmar officials to face genocide charges.

The investigators also criticised Facebook, which has become Myanmar’s dominant social media network, for letting its platform be used to incite violence and hatred.

Facebook responded on Monday by announcing it was blocking 20 Myanmar officials and organisations found by the UN panel to have “committed or enabled serious human rights abuses”.

Picture: GETTY IMAGES Rohingya women and children wait to be treated at a camp in Bangladesh.