WEB DESK
Myanmar wants to see clear evidence to support the accusations that ethnic cleansing or genocide has been perpetrated against its Muslim minority in Rakhine state,National security adviser Thaung Tun said on Thursday .
‘The vast majority of the Muslim community that was living in Rakhine remain,’ he told reporters in Geneva.
‘If it was genocide, they would all be driven out.’
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine into neighbouring Bangladesh since insurgent attacks sparked a security crackdown in August, joining 200,000 refugees from a previous exodus.
On Wednesday, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said he strongly suspected ‘acts of genocide’, while Myanmar’s military published a lengthy response to widespread allegations over its campaign in Rakhine, saying its investigations had cleared troops of almost all alleged abuses.