Business Insider/AP: UN says Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims has the 'hallmarks of genocide'
* The U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar said Thursday that the Myanmar military's violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear "the hallmarks of a genocide."
* Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled their villages into Bangladesh since the Myanmar military's crackdown following Aug. 25 attacks by Rohingya insurgents.
* An Associated Press report Thursday detailed a massacre and at least five mass graves in the Myanmar village.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar said Thursday that the Myanmar military's violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear "the hallmarks of a genocide."
Yanghee Lee told reporters in Seoul, where she is based, that she couldn't make a definitive declaration about genocide until a credible international tribunal or court had weighed the evidence, but "we are seeing signs and it is building up to that."
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WNU Editor: My gut is telling me that this is probably just the "tip of the iceberg".
More News On Reports That Mass Graves Have Been Discovered In Myanmar
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