Rights Violations: Video Footage and Mission

rights violations: The report of the Fact-Finding Mission, chaired by former Indonesian Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman, was based on hundreds of accounts by victims and witnesses of reported human rights violations, as well as satellite imagery, photographs and video footage, according to Metro News. The mission's members were barred by Myanmar's government from entering the country, so its researchers interviewed refugees and others in Bangladesh, Malaysia and Thailand. Government spokesman Zaw Htay said the reports presented Monday by the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar and U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee lacked credibility. Zaw Htay said Buddhist-majority Myanmar had barred the Fact-Finding Mission because it rejected its legitimacy. We are not denying rights violations but we are asking for strong, fact-based, and trustworthy evidence on the allegations they are making, Zaw Htay told The Associated Press by telephone. He questioned the reliability of its research and cast doubts on the credibility of the refugees' stories. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.