The United Nations has yet to determine whether violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar meets the legal definition of genocide, Jyoti Sanghera, Asia-Pacific chief at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said on Wednesday.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has called the situation "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" but he has not used the word genocide.
"We are yet looking at the legal boundaries of that," Sanghera said. "It could meet the boundaries, but we haven't yet made that legal determination at OHCHR."