Myanmar’s suffocating controls over its Rohingya population amount to “apartheid”, Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a probe into the root causes of a crisis that has sent 620,000 refugees fleeing to Bangladesh. Meanwhile, members of the US Congress said on Tuesday operations carried out against the Rohingyas had “all the hallmarks” of ethnic cleansing, while the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed doubts about allegations of rights abuses. Suu Kyi conflated illegal migration with terrorism in a keynote speech at the Asia Europe Foreign Ministers (ASEM) meeting held at Naypyitaw, adding her voice to the Islamophobia that has justified persecution of the Rohingya.