United Nations rights body has agreed to send a fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate alleged abuses by security forces against Rohingya Muslims.
Tens of thousands of people have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state since the military began a security operation last October in response to what it says was an attack by Rohingya armed men on border posts, in which nine police officers were killed.
A February UN report said the operation targeting the Rohingya involved mass rapes and killings, possibly amounting to crimes against humanity
The independent, international mission should be dispatched "urgently" to establish the facts of the alleged atrocities, the UN Human Rights Council decided in Geneva on Friday March 24,2017, in a resolution adopted by consensus.
The investigation would be launched "with a view to ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims," the resolution said.
The investigators must provide an oral update in September and a full report by this time next year, said the resolution backed by the European Union.
Some countries, including China, India and Cuba, dissociated themselves from the resolution.
But the council stopped short of calling for a Commission of Inquiry - the world body's highest level investigation - into the violence, despite a call by Yanghee Lee, the UN's special rapporteur on rights in Myanmar.
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