Millions of dollars of funding cuts from donors and UN cost-cutting could hamper evidence gathering and undermine efforts to seek justice for Rohingya who fled Myanmar, the head of a UN investigation told Reuters.

Nicholas Koumjian, head of The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, said he fears that the scale-back of its work will hurt efforts to bring perpetrators to justice.

"That would send a message of impunity. It says to perpetrators: don't worry about being charged."

A million Rohingya, a Muslim minority group, fled a Myanmar military offensive in August 2017 - a campaign seen by prosecutors as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.

The Myanmar military says the operation was a legitimate counter-terrorism campaign in response to attacks by Muslim militants, not a p

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