UN World Court begins landmark hearings on Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar

© UNICEF/Patrick Brown In this September 2017 photograph, a Rohingya man carrying his two children wades ashore in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, after fleeing Rakhine state on a rickety boat across the Bay of Bengal.

This article is published in association with United Nations. Public hearings opened on Monday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a landmark case brought by the Gambia against Myanmar, alleging violations of the Genocide Convention over the military’s treatment of the Rohingya minority. The proceedings, held at the Peace Palace in The Hague, mark […]

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