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Myanmar junta slams UN human rights chief's 'irrelevant' comments

Myanmar's military parade to mark the 72nd Armed Forces Day in the capital Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on March 27, 2017. (Photo: Reuters)

Myanmar's junta has slammed the United Nations' (UN) human rights chief for making "irrelevant" remarks after he said the military may have committed war crimes as it struggles to crush resistance to its rule.

Two years after the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government, the human rights situation in Myanmar is a "festering catastrophe", the global body's rights office said last week in a report.

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