THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi rejected allegations of genocide against Myanmar in the UN's top court Wednesday, despite admitting the army may have used excessive forc
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi rejected allegations of genocide against Myanmar in the UN's top court Wednesday, despite admitting the army may have used excessive force against Rohingya Muslims.
Watch more in iWant or TFC.tv Nearly three-quarters of a million Rohingya fled to neighboring Bangladesh after the Myanmar military launched a huge offensive that it said was in response to attacks by local militants. "Please bear in mind this complex situation and the challenge to sovereignty and security in our country," she said.Lawyers for Myanmar argued that to prove genocide, international law required concrete proof of the intention to destroy a race of people.
It has the backing of the 57-nation Organisation for Islamic Cooperation plus Canada and the Netherlands."Suu Kyi was our hope. But since she came out of imprisonment, she shattered it. How does she deny Myanmar army's atrocities?" Mohammad Yunus, Rohingya imam at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp, told AFP after hearing Suu Kyi speak.
"This was a genocide... and I am profoundly disappointed that Aung San Suu Kyi presented these arguments," said Rapp, who was also a former US ambassador-at-large for global justice under the administration of former US president Barack Obama. "These allegations against Myanmar and Suu Kyi are rubbish," said Chomar Oosterhof, 53, a Burmese woman living in the Netherlands.
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