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30 August 2018 Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned after the violent military campaign against the Muslim minority Rohingya last year: outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein told the BBC. Attempts by the Nobel Peace Prize to justify the military's actions are "profoundly deplorable," he added.

The High Commissioner's judgment follows Monday's report of the UN Human Rights Council mission that Burmese military leaders should be charged with genocide and war crimes against the Rohingya. Suu Kyi "was able to do something," said Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein in an interview with the broadcaster: "He could have remained silent - he added - or, better yet, he could have resigned" . And then: "There was no need for you to be the spokesman for the Burmese army. She was not forced to say that it was a misinformation iceberg. That they were lies."