New UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet says she was "shocked" by Myanmar's jailing of two Reuters journalists for seven years and calls for their immediate release.

A top Myanmar official has admitted Rohingyas were tortured but played down the global concern over its ethnic cleansing, saying his

Action will be taken against 16 persons, including 10 members of Myanmar's security forces, in connection with the killing of captured Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a government spokesman says.