UN mission urges financial isolation of Myanmar’s military ‘for human rights abuses’

A UN fact-finding mission has urged countries to cut off all business with Myanmar’s military as part of efforts to hold the army accountable for human rights abuses.

The UN Human Rights Council said on Tuesday that there has been no progress toward resolving the crisis over Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority. More than a million of them have fled military “clearance operations” in the northwest Rakhine region, Reuters said.

“The situation is at a total standstill,” according to Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar.

The mission said that the military had committed atrocities against many ethnic groups living within Myanmar. It also faulted armed ethnic groups for committing human rights abuses.