Nobel peace laureates to Suu Kyi: 'End Rohingya genocide or face prosecution'

DHAKA (Reuters) - Three Nobel peace laureates urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the military on Wednesday to end the "genocide" of Rohingya Muslims now or face prosecution.

The United Nations and human rights organizations have collected evidence of widespread abuses by the Myanmar military against the largely stateless Rohingya, including murder, rape and arson, prompting nearly 700,000 to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, and have called the crackdown ethnic cleansing.

"She (Suu Kyi) must stop turning a deaf ear to the persecution of the Rohingya or risk being complicit in the crimes," Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman told a press conference in Dhaka after visiting refugee camps at Cox's Bazar on the southern tip of Bangladesh.

"Wake up or face prosecution," said Karman, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.


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