Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, chronicles in excruciating detail the atrocities that drove more than 750,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighboring Bangladesh and that prompted the group to level accusations of genocide.

Myanmar has flatly denied that the military committed atrocities. It said troops were reacting to attacks by Rohingya militants on border security police and several villages.

“This explanation is flawed,” the United Nations panel retorted. “The killing was widespread, systematic and brutal.”

“At the core of every incident and every human rights violation we examined was the extreme brutality of the Myanmar military,” Marzuki Darusman, the panel’s chairman, told the United Nations Human Rights Council...

The panel has called on the United Nations Security Council to refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court or to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those, including the army chief, who have been identified as responsible for the violence. It also urged the Security Council to introduce an arms embargo on Myanmar and to impose targeted sanctions on individuals, including travel bans and asset freezing.

“Any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership and its businesses is indefensible,” the panel said, referring to the military...