Gambia's Rohingya Genocide Case Against Myanmar Shows States Have Responsibilities – The Standard Newspaper

Gambia's Rohingya Genocide Case Against Myanmar Shows States Have Responsibilities – The Standard Newspaper

By Janine di Giovanni This week, after years of preliminary legal arguments, the case concerning Myanmar’s alleged brutal treatment of the Rohingya people opened at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. There, in the weeks to come, expert witnesses and survivors will recount, in terrible detail, how a Muslim minority in Rakhine state was ethnically cleansed from its homes and subjected to horrific cruelty – rape, mass killings and sys…

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UN Photo/ICJ/Frank van BeekThe International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague hears arguments concerning the case brought by the Gambia against Myanmar. This article is published in association with United Nations. Myanmar on Friday rejected allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority, telling the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the Gambia’s case rests on “unsubstantiated allegations,” as public hearings continued in a lan…