Graphic detaills have emerged of how soldiers killed infants and small children,shot unarmed men,and raped women,often in public.
The court's chief prosecutor said she would look at reports of"coercive acts having resulted in the forced displacement of the Rohingya people".
The Australian government is considering options in response to the fact-finding mission's report,including targeted sanctions.
A leading UN human rights investigator has criticised Aung San Suu Kyi,Burma's civilian leader,for acting as a"fig leaf for military atrocities".
Myanmar's de facto leader leaves herself open to accusations she was taking the side of the military forces responsible for atrocities.
The Myanmar leader's comments that the jailing of two Reuters journalists could appeal their seven-year sentences has prompted criticism from the US.
Judges at the International Criminal Court have ruled that the court has jurisdiction to investigate possible crimes against Rohingya minority.
The Reuters reporters who exposed a massacre in a Rohingya village claim police entrapped them then presented false testimonies.
Aid workers had thought that most parentless children in the massive refugee camps were simply separated from their parents. The truth is much darker.
In the desperate Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh,13-year-old Yasmin Akhter,whose parents were shot dead,lives on shifting sands.
Close to a million Rohingya refugees are waiting for the monsoon,and even perhaps cyclones,to arrive. Their houses could crumble underneath them.