The UN high commissioner for human rights has urged Myanmar to investigate the recent killings of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state.
Navi Pillay has called on the government of Myanmar to carry out a swift and impartial investigation and to hold accountable those behind the bloodshed. The UN says at least 48 Muslims, including women and children, were killed when Buddhist mobs attacked a village in northern Rakhine state earlier this month. There are around one-million Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The government refuses to grant them citizenship. The United Nations has called them one of the most persecuted minorities in the world
