Naypyidaw — British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt on Thursday called for justice in the Rohingya crisis after his visit to Myanmar’s Rakhine state, telling embattled leader Aung San Suu Kyi the world "won’t let it rest". Hunt’s rallying cry for accountability comes at the end of a busy two-day visit during which he visited Rakhine — the epicentre of a brutal military campaign that drove out more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims — and met with Suu Kyi. "Burma needs to know the international community won’t let it rest," said Hunt, using Myanmar’s former name. Myanmar has set up an "independent" commission to take measure of the army’s crackdown on the Rohingya, rejecting the UN probe and calls for the International Criminal Court to investigate. "If we don’t see that process happening, we will use all the tools at our disposal to make sure there is justice ... the world is watching," Hunt said after the meeting, which he said was "lively" and "frank". The British foreign minister’s visit...
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