THE HAGUE – Gambia on Monday told judges at the United Nations’ top court that Myanmar targeted minority Muslim Rohingya for destruction and made their lives a nightmare in a landmark case accusing Myanmar of genocide.
It is the first genocide case the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is ?hearing in full in more than a decade. The outcome will have repercussions beyond Myanmar, likely affecting ?South Africa’s ?genocide case at the ICJ against Israel over the war in Gaza.
Myanmar has denied ?genocide. Israel denies genocide, and lawyers for Israel dismissed South Africa’s case as an abuse of the genocide convention.
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