YANGON: Myanmar’s powerful army should be removed from politics, UN investigators said Tuesday, as they released the final part of a damning report reiterating calls for top generals to be prosecuted for ‘genocide’ against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
A brutal military crackdown last year forced more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee over the border to Bangladesh.
The UN’s 444-page probe called for the military’s top leadership to be replaced and for the institution – locally known as the Tatmadaw — to have no further influence over the country’s governance.
Myanmar’s military dominates the Buddhist-majority country, holding a quarter of seats in parliament and controlling three ministries.
But the report said that the country’s civilian leadership “should further pursue the removal of the Tatmadaw from Myanmar’s political life”, referring to the nation’s armed forces.
