New York, Nov. 16 -- Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday authorized an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity, namely deportation, which have forced between 600,000 and one million Rohingya refugees out of Myanmar, into neighboring Bangladesh since 2016.

The pre-trial judges "accepted that there exists a reasonable basis to believe widespread and/or systematic acts of violence may have been committed that could qualify as crimes against humanity of deportation across the Myanmar-Bangladesh border" the Court said in a press statement, in addition to "persecution on grounds of ethnicity and/or religion against the Rohingya population."After a reported military-led crackdown, widespread killings, rape an...