BURMA: The International Criminal Court (ICC) approved a full investigation into Myanmar’s alleged crimes against the Rohingya.

The Southeast Asian nation is facing a mounting legal pressure worldwide over the treatment of the minority ethnic group.

ICC judges on Thursday backed a prosecution request to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity and persecution over Myanmar’s bloody 2017 military crackdown against the majority-Muslim group.

The ICC’s decision came after Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de-facto civilian leader, was named in an Argentine lawsuit over crimes against the Rohingya and Myanmar faced a separate genocide lawsuit at the United Nations’s top court.

More than 740,000 Rohingya were forced to flee over the border into sprawling camps in Bangladesh, in violence that the UN investigators said amounted to genocide. (Agencies)