Human Rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, including allegations of mass rape and indiscriminate killings, might amount to “crimes against humanity,’’ UN Rights Experts said on Wednesday.

“We are particularly worried about the fate of Rohingya women and children subject to serious violations of their human rights, including killings, rape and forced displacement,” according to a statement by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

UN rights chief Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein previously called the violence in Northern Rakhine state, which has driven some 500,000 Rohingya into neighbouring Bangladesh since August, a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.’’

Myanmar has denied allegations of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

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