The U.N. has called on Tuesday for the prosecution of Myanmar's top soldiers and officers by an 'international court' for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
The U.N's Independent International Fact-finding Mission On Myanmar said "genocidal intent" against the Rohingya people were present.
The report defined the Rohingya people from Myanmar's Rakhine State as "protected group," and that the treatment against them by Myanmar security forces "includes conduct that amounts to four of the five defined prohibited acts.
The reports cited the four prohibited acts of killing; causing serious bodily or mental harm; inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group in whole or in part, and imposing measures intending to prevent births.
UN Mission further urged "for a competent prosecutorial body and court of law to investigate and adjudicate cases against specific individuals to determine individual guilt or innocence."
Since Aug. 25, 2017, more than 750,000 refugees, mostly children and women, have fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community, according to Amnesty International.
More than 40 per cent of the displaced Rohingya are under age 12, according to the UN and many others are elderly people requiring additional aid and protection.
The settlements in Kutupalong and Nayapara in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district host nearly all who arrived from Myanmar.
The Rohingya, described by the UN as the world's most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.
The UN documented mass gang rapes, killings -- including of infants and young children -- brutal beatings, and disappearances committed by security personnel.
