Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (A/HRC/39/64)

The Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, document A/HRC/39/64, published by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2018, is the UN's own official investigative report finding that Myanmar's military conducted the 2017 campaign against the Rohingya with genocidal intent, based on the mission's own interviews with survivors, satellite imagery and documentary evidence gathered over its mandate. Its strength is institutional standing and method, a formally mandated international fact-finding body with subpoena-like investigative authority and a stated evidentiary methodology, producing findings the UN itself adopted rather than a single outside researcher's account. Its limit is that the mission was denied access to Myanmar itself by the government, so its evidence was gathered from refugees, satellite data and outside sources rather than on the ground investigation within the country, a constraint the report itself states plainly and that any claim resting on granular on site detail should account for.