The UN began work inside Myanmar's violence-torn northern Rakhine state yesterday, the first time its agencies have been granted permission to operate there since more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled the area last year.

The new UN human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, yesterday called for an international mechanism to collect evidence of crimes committed by the Myanmar army against the Rohingya Muslims in order to pursue prosecutions.

UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng has urged International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to consider ICC's recommendation of opening an investigation into the atrocities against Rohingyas without delay.

Regional lawmakers welcome the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which ruled that it could exercise jurisdiction over the alleged crime of deportation of the Rohingya population, despite Myanmar not being a party to the Rome Statute.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday said they are expecting to begin the Rohingya repatriation soon by sending the first batch of over 3,000 forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals.

Criminals shot a Rohingya man dead inside a camp at Leda in Teknaf upazila yesterday afternoon.

Baffled, hurt or indignant, many inside Myanmar are struggling to digest a week of opprobrium heaped on their country by the UN and even Facebook over the treatment of the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim group whose plight elicits little sympathy in the Buddhist-majority nation.

The UN has found that the Myanmar military had planned the Rohingya genocide long before the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked the country's security personnel, a justification put forward by Myanmar for the violent crackdown on the ethnic minority.

The UN Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar publishes some maps and satellite imageries of atrocities against the Rohingyas in northern Rakhine State of Myanmar.

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and Oscar-winning actor Cate Blanchett, who visited a refugee camp in Bangladesh last year, says what she saw and heard there left her both “shocked and disturbed”.

Mentioning that the findings of a new report indicate widespread human rights abuses by the Myanmar military and its other security forces, the United States says it held high-level military individuals in Myanmar responsible for the situation.

A Myanmar government spokesman rejects a report by United Nations investigators that called for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, saying the international community was making "false allegations".

Myanmar’s recently-formed commission of enquiry “will not and cannot provide a real avenue for accountability, even with some international involvement’’, according to a UN probe report on the atrocities” against the Rohingya community.

Myanmar’s military carries out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingyas in the country’s Rakhine State with “genocidal intent”, UN investigators say.

Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has not used her de facto position as the Head of Government to prevent the atrocities against the Rohingya community, according to the report of a fact-finding mission of the United Nations.

The United States will continue to hold accountable those responsible for what he described as the "abhorrent ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.

The Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar's refugee camps yesterday recalled the horrors of killings, rapes and torching of their houses by the Myanmar military exactly a year ago.

Marking a year of Rohingya influx, a group of civil society and NGO members form a human chain in front of National Press Club in Dhaka demanding justice for "genocide" carried out by the Myanmar government and military in Rakhine state.

One year later, despite months of discussions among Myanmar, Bangladesh, the United Nations and a string of aid agencies, there are few signs that the Rohingya can go home anytime soon.

One year since over 700,000 Rohingya refugees were forced to flee from Myanmar into Bangladesh, the denial of their legal status, coupled with unacceptable living conditions in haphazard makeshift camps, continues to trap refugees in a cycle of suffering and poor health, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says.