A recent U.N. report had decried Myanmar’s top military brass for its barbaric acts of violence against Rohingyas.

Last week, the Canadian parliament approved a motion identifying crimes against Rohingyas as genocide.

Two Reuters journalists, who were detained in Myanmar in December after reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims, have been awarded a jail term of seven years for violating a state secrets act.

In an interview, outgoing U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said that Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have stepped down over the mass killings of Rohingyas by the Burmese army.

United Nations envoy dismisses the government's claim of rehabilitation efforts being in place. 

Bill Richardson slammed Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi for lacking “moral leadership” on the issue.

A brutal crackdown by Burmese military has forced over 650,000 Rohingyas out of Rakhine. 

The action, which comes ahead of U.S. President's visit to the region, marks the strongest U.S. response.

In a strongly worded speech, Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., slammed Myanmar’s military for running a “brutal and sustained” campaign to cleanse the country of Rohingya Muslims.

The International Organization for Migration's Director-General William Lacy Swing said that he was “shocked and concerned,” as damning reports of sexual abuse of Rohingya women continue to emerge from Myanmar.