Myanmar has freed seven soldiers early who were jailed for the killings of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys in a military crackdown in 2017.

 

They were the only soldiers to be punished over the 2017 crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, which drove more than 730,000 Rohingya people to flee to Bangladesh.

 

The UN investigators dubbed this ‘genocidal intent’, Myanmar officials, however, deny any wrong-doing.