Texto sobre el genocidio de los rohingya. Temas: migraciones, rol de los medios de comunicación en conflictos internacionales, soluciones internacionales a conflictos.

1. UN official convinced of Myanmar Rohingya 'genocide'
A senior United Nations official investigating Myanmar's
ongoing crackdown against the Rohingya says she is
increasingly convinced it may amount to genocide.
More than 680,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar
to neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017, bringing with them stories of mass
murder and destruction at the hands of the country's military.
"I am becoming more convinced that the crimes committed following 9 October 2016
and 25 August 2017 bear the hallmarks of genocide and call in the strongest terms for
accountability," said Yanghee Lee, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in
Myanmar.
Lee, who was speaking to the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, also
called for a body to be set up at Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, where most Rohingya have
sought refuge, to compile evidence of human rights abuses in Myanmar.
She said its "aim would be to facilitate impartial, fair and independent international
criminal proceedings in national or international courts or tribunals."
CNN contacted Myanmar's government for comment but didn't receive an immediate
response.
Lee was speaking as her scathing report on the state of human rights in Myanmar was
released, in which she calls for calls "for a thorough, impartial and credible
investigation to be conducted without delay and perpetrators to be held responsible for
the alleged crimes that were committed in Rakhine State".
Myanmar denies all charges, saying its military has only targeted suspected terrorists
that killed 12 security officials in late August. However, in January the military
admitted involvement in the killing of 10 Rohingya buried in a mass grave.
The UN and the US say they believe the violence constitutes ethnic cleansing. In
December last year Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN's High Commissioner for Human
Rights, also suggested that genocide may have been committed against the Rohingya.
The UN has a detailed definition of genocide, which it describes as acts committed with
an "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group".
Answer the following questions:
1. Which is the major religion in Myanmar?
2. Which country did most Rohingya flee to?
3. What is Myanmar’s reaction to this issue?
4. Can Rohingya’s suffering be considered a genocide?