Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi dismissed that her country’s armed forces perpetrated genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, informing the U.N.’s superior court that the flight of hundreds of thousands of Muslims represent the unlucky result of a battle with rebels.
Suu Kyi disputed key allegations that the army had intentionally killed innocent civilians, raped women and torched houses in 2017 in what Myanmar’s opponents name as a planned campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide that saw more than 700,00 Rohingya flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.
More than 730,000 Rohingya escaped Myanmar to Bangladesh following the military launched its crackdown. Chief United Nations inspectors have properly stated 10,000 people may have been killed.
Civil rights groups said Suu Kyi’s questionable comment adamantly opposed testimony on the ground and eyewitness accounts. Her statements “fly in the face of all the evidence gathered by the UN, and the testimony our own teams have heard from countless survivors,” said George Graham, director of humanitarian advocacy at Save the Children
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