Myanmar's Chief of General Staff (Army,Navy and Air) Lieutenant General Mya Tun Oo talks during a news conference regarding the situation in northern Rakhine State and Northeast Monekoe conflict in November 2016 at the Chief of Defense office (Army) in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - Myanmar's military defended its crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority as a lawful counterinsurgency operation at a rare news conference on Tuesday, adding it was necessary to defend the country.
It was the first time the top generals directly addressed the mounting accusations of human rights abuses which, according to U.N. experts, may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
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