UN fears Myanmar genocide

The UN adviser on preventing genocide says all information he has received indicates the Myanmar government intended to cleanse Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine state and possibly even destroy them “which, if proven, would constitute the crime of genocide”.

Adama Dieng recently visited Bangladesh to assess the situation of the Rohingyas and said that what he heard and witnessed was “a human tragedy with the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community”.

He said the campaign carried out was “predictable and preventable”.