UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. investigators say an genocide is taking place against Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has no interest in establishing a fully functioning democracy.
The chair of the U.N. fact-finding mission on Myanmar says that up to 400,000 Rohingya who didn't flee to Bangladesh last year amid a brutal military campaign continue to suffer "the most severe" restrictions and repressions.
Marzuki Darusman said Wednesday that "It is an ongoing genocide that is taking place at the moment."
U.N. special investigator Yanghee Lee said she and many others in the international community hoped the situation under Aung San Suu Kyi "would be vastly different from the past — but it is really not that much different from the past."
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