Rohingya crisis: British FM sits with Suu Kyi

British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt meets Myanmar state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in capital Naypyidaw on Thursday.
British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt meets Myanmar state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in capital Naypyidaw on Thursday.
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AFP, Naypyidaw :
British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt met on Thursday with embattled Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the first high-profile state visit to the country since the UN slammed her leadership over the Rohingya crisis.
UN investigators this week released a scathing and meticulous report detailing why several Myanmar generals should be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya
Muslim minority who were driven out of Rakhine state beginning in August 2017.
The report called for Army chief Min Aung Hlaing and five other top military leaders to be investigated for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for their role in the crackdown.
Under their leadership the Myanmar military face allegations of extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and that wholesale razing of Rohingya villages in Rakhine-the epicentre of the crisis from which more than 700,000 Rohingya fled.
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