The head of Myanmar’s military junta was accused on Wednesday of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor, in a blow to the war-torn country’s government.

       The prosecutor, Karim Khan, requested an arrest warrant for Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, who in 2017 led the country’s military on a deadly rampage against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority. During that violence, civilians were killed, women were raped and homes were razed.

       Over one million Rohingya have been forced to flee violence in the country, the court said, and over the years many have sought sanctuary in refugee camps across the border in Bangladesh.

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