Myanmar begins rare court martial after probe into Rohingya atrocities

South Korean President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi during the ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit in Busan, South Korea. Myanmar's Nobel peace prize winner, for her past defiance of a military junta that had led the country for decades, is set to travel to the Hague for hearings starting in December at the International Court of Justice. - AP

Soldiers, police, and Buddhist villagers are alleged to have razed hundreds of villages in the remote western Rakhine state, torturing Rohingya as they fled, carrying out mass-killings and gang-rapes. In a statement published on its website, the army said the soldiers being court martialed were involved in"accidents” in Gu Dar Pyin.

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of a Nobel peace prize for her past defiance of a military junta that had led the country for decades, is set to travel to the Hague for hearings starting in December at the International Court of Justice.

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