Nearly 7,00,000 Rohingya have fled from their villages into Bangladesh. File pic/AFP

The UN special envoy on human rights in Myanmar said yesterday that the Myanmar military's violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear "the hallmarks of a genocide." Yanghee Lee said she couldn't make a definitive declaration about genocide until a credible international tribunal or court had weighed the evidence, but "we are seeing signs and it is building up to that."