Explainer: Genocide case against Myanmar at the top U.N. court

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"Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was due to leave the Netherlands on Friday after defending her country against accusations of genocide during three days of hearings at the International Court of Justice. The west African country of Gambia filed a case in November, alleging Myanmar was committing “an ongoing genocide” against its minority Muslim Rohingya population. As a first step, Gambia asked the court to order emergency measures to protect the Rohingya and keep the conflict from getting worse. These are meant as a kind of restraining order while the 17-judge panel looks at the full case on its merits, which usually takes several years to complete. The court said it would rule on the request as soon as possible, but did not set a specific date. A ruling is expected within weeks. These hearings are expected to have been the first in a long process. The genocide case against Bosnian Serbs in Srebrenica in 1995 took almost 15 years to complete..."

Creator/author: 

Stephanie van den Berg

Source/publisher: 

"Reuters" (UK)

Date of Publication: 

2019-12-13

Date of entry: 

2019-12-16

Grouping: 

  • Individual Documents

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Countries: 

Myanmar, Gambia

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

text

Text quality: 

    • Good