INTERNATIONAL - Activists denounced the Myanmar government on the establishment of a new commission to investigate alleged violations of human rights (HAM) against ethnic Rohingya minority.
The activists, Friday (02/12/2016), said the new body set up by the Myanmar government has no credibility, according to Agence France-Presse.
The criticism from human rights groups linked violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar, came as former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan started his visit to the troubled country.
Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, the face of increasingly swift international criticism for failing to investigate alleged military violence against the Rohingya.
Human rights groups rejected the new commission's 13 members because none of its members come from a minority group of Muslims to represent their interests.
Commission of inquiry into alleged human rights violations on Rohingya Muslims, led by Vice President Myint Swe, an army general who previously blacklisted by the US.
Myint Swe is a close ally of Myanmar's former junta leader, Than Shwe.
General Swe is the head of special operations in Yangon when the junta ordered a crackdown on protests led by a monk in the Saffron Revolution in 2007.
"We have only a little faith in the new commission, mainly because of the commission headed by a military man," said Matthew Smith, Chief Executive 'Fortify Rights'.
"This new commission will not be able to investigate credible human rights and also do not have freedom. Now it is time for an independent international investigation," he said.
Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch in Asia, said the new commission "did not seem independent or not neutral".
Suu Kyi's Office, said the new commission will investigate the attack on the police station at the border, which occurred on October 9, triggering a deadly military attacks.
The new entity formed by the de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, it gets "international charges" because of the occurrence of deadly violence by the military.
The Commission is the second formed by Suu Kyi. He tries to heal divisions among religious who have separated from Rakhine since deadly sectarian riots in 2012 that more than 100 people were killed.
Saw Hla Oo, a senior politician of the National Party of Arakan, said a new commission would not be anything. "I do not have much hope for it," he said.
Some Muslim leaders in Myanmar voiced their concerns for the sound group had not been represented in the commission.
More than 10,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from Rakhine violence, Myanmar, in recent weeks, the United Nations said on Wednesday (12/01/2016).
Meanwhile, the arrival of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was greeted by demonstrators carrying signs reading "Ban the Kofi Annan commision" when he landed at Sittwe, capital of Rakhine.
Members of the commission, Aye Lwin, said the visit to Rakhine to "establish the facts ... we will not give any conclusion".