UN to create panel to analyze violations of international law in Myanmar

The UN Human Rights Council voted Thursday to set up a panel to prepare criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority.

Thirty-five of the council's 47 members voted in favor of the resolution calling for the establishment of an "independent mechanism to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyze evidence of the most serious international crimes and violations of international law committed in Myanmar since 2011."

(With inputs from agencies.)