Tillerson: 'Heartbreaking' reports of suffering in Myanmar

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is condemning reported atrocities committed against Rohingya (ROH'-hihn-jah) Muslims in Myanmar (mee-an-MAWR'), and he says those responsible - perhaps the country's military - will be held accountable.

Tillerson says accounts of the suffering of the Rohingya are "heartbreaking" - and that if those reports are true, then "someone is going to be held to account for that."

Tillerson - who's set to visit South Asia next week - is urging the Myanmar government to improve humanitarian access to the population in western Rakhine state.

Amnesty International has accused Myanmar's security forces of killing hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel the Rohingya. More than 580,000 refugees have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August.