Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Landmark Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar heard at top UN court
There are two international courts in The Hague, the Netherlands. One
is the International Criminal Court (ICC), an international court to prosecute
individuals for international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war
crimes. The other is the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal
judicial organ of the United Nations (UN), which settles legal disputes between
states and gives advisory opinions on international law. Gambia, a muslim-majority
African country, filed suit against Myanmar, a Buddhist South Asian country, for
brutal and vicious violations committed against the Rohingya, a Muslim minority
in Myanmar’s Rakhine province. Just during the 2017 military crackdown, thousands
of Rohingya Muslims were killed in the province, and more than 750,000 fled their
homeland for sprawling camps in neighboring Bangladesh. Now, more than one
million Rohingya refugees live in overcrowded camps in the Cox’s Bazar district
of Bangladesh, forming the world’s largest refugee settlement.
The incumbent regime of Myanmar is a military junta, which seized power
in a coup in 2021, overthrowing the democratically elected government led by Aung
San Suu Kyi. Who and what groups in Myanmar are responsible for this
large-scale, prolonged persecution of the Rohingya people?
Read the article and learn about the severe suffering of the Rohingya
people.
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