A watershed legal battle will take place at the UN’s highest court today to hold Myanmar accountable over the alleged genocide against its Rohingya minorities. AsiaNewsNetwork
The International Criminal Court also approved an investigation into the 2017 military crackdown that forced some 740,000 Rohingyas to flee into Bangladesh.
A team of Rohingya representatives from Cox’s Bazar and some civil society members from Dhaka are also attending the hearing. But the process is lengthy, requiring participation from Bangladesh and — somewhat implausibly — Myanmar to hand over suspects. Gambia, a tiny, mainly-Muslim state, filed a complaint on behalf of the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation accusing Myanmar of breaching the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.
“I saw genocide written all over these stories,” Tambadou said in an interview in Gambia’s capital, Banjul. Authorities in Myanmar reacted swiftly to Gambia’s submissions, which cite UN investigators’ findings that Myanmar’s military acted with “genocidal intent”. “Twenty-two years of a brutal dictatorship has taught us how to use our voice,” said Tambadou, seated behind a desk stacked with legal texts, his shirtsleeves rolled up as he sweated through a power cut.
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