Genocide and crimes against humanity. UN officials say these are the charges military leaders in Myanmar should face. A UN report alleges Myanmar's military carried out the mass killing and gang rape of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent". CGTN's Liling Tan gives us the details from New York.  

LILING TAN NEW YORK "The UN fact-finding mission report has singled out six generals they believe should stand trial over allegations of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against ethnic groups in Myanmar's Rakhine State, but also in the Kachin and Shan States. Among those named is the Tatmadaw Commander in Chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who just returned to Myanmar from Moscow, where he reportedly attended a military conference and shopped for weapons.

CHRISTOPHER SIDOTI FACT-FINDING MISSION MEMBER "In Myanmar, there is a very clear chain of command and there is no doubt in our minds whatsoever, that what we saw happened in Rakhine as a whole, would not have happened without it, firstly, within the knowledge of the senior military leadership and secondly, under their effective control."

The three-member panel also called on the Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar. While reports of ethnic persecution of Rohingya Muslims is not new - we've seen much about the Rohingya crisis that erupted exactly a year ago - the latest report provides a more in-depth picture of the extent of the violence directed at ethnic minorities in the government's response to last year's August 25th attack by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.

The panel stressed that the resulting crackdown was brutal and grossly disproportionate.

RADHIKA COOMARASWAMY FACT-FINDING MISSION MEMBER "The scale, brutality, and systematic nature of rape and violence indicate that they are parts of a deliberate strategy to intimidate, terrorize, or punish the civilian population. They're used as a tactic of war that we found include rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, forced nudity, and mutilation."

The panel's report is based on 875 interviews with victims and witnesses, as well as satellite images, photographs and videos. It adds weight to previous reports detailing the extent of the alleged persecution and the root causes, as well as allegations of human rights violations going back to 2011.

LILING TAN NEW YORK "In so doing, it puts much more pressure on the United Nations and the Security Council, which has been criticized for not doing enough - to act now be it through diplomatic or punitive means. Liling Tan, CGTN, New York."