U.N. investigators: Genocide still taking place in Myanmar

UNITED NATIONS — Genocide is still taking place against Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has no interest in establishing a fully functioning democracy, U.N. investigators said Wednesday.

Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. factfinding mission on Myanmar, said thousands of Rohingya are still fleeing to Bangladesh, and the estimated 250,000 to 400,000 who have remained after last year’s brutal military campaign in the Buddhist-majority country “continue to suffer the most severe” restrictions and repression.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government “is in total denial” about accusations that the military raped, murdered and tortured Rohingya, investigators said.