Findings of a U.S. State Department investigation into Myanmar's Rohingya crisis are "consistent" with those of a report by U.N. investigators released this week that called for Myanmar's commander-in-chief and other generals be tried for genocide, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Addressing the U.N. Security Council, Nikki Haley said "the world can no longer avoid the difficult truth of what happened." She did not use the term "genocide" and the State Department has said it had not yet concluded whether it shared the determination of "genocidal intent" that Monday's U.N. report attached to the attacks on Rohingya Muslims.
However, Haley said that of the more than 1,000 randomly selected Rohingya Muslims surveyed in the State Department's own report, "fully one fifth" witnessed more than 100 victims being killed or injured. She said 82 percent had seen a killing, more than half had witnessed sexual violence and 45 percent had witnessed a rape.
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