Suu Kyi rejects UN Myanmar probe

Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday rejected a decision by the UN's rights council to investigate allegations of crimes by Myanmar's security forces against minority Rohingya Muslims.

The UN body agreed in March to dispatch a fact-finding mission to the Southeast Asian country over claims of murder, rape and torture in Rakhine state.

"We do not agree with it," Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, told a press conference with EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini during a visit to Brussels, when asked about the probe.

"We have disassociated ourselves from the resolution because we do not think that the resolution is in keeping with what is actually happening on the ground."

Nobel laureate Suu Kyi said that the country would be "happy to accept" recommendations that were "in keeping with the real needs of the region.

"But those recommendations which will divide further the two communities in Rakhine we will not accept, because it will not help to resolve the problems that are arising all the time."

"I am not sure quite what you mean by saying that we have not been concerned at all with regards to the allegations of atrocities that have taken place in the Rakhine," Suu Kyi said. "We have been investigating them and have been taking action."

Rights groups say hundreds of the stateless group were killed in a months-long army crackdown following deadly attacks on Myanmar border police posts.