Real lives hang in the balance as Gambia’s Justice Minister Dawda Jallow laid bare Myanmar’s alleged systematic destruction of the Rohingya minority Monday at the ICJ in The Hague, kicking off oral arguments in the 2019 case under the 1948 Genocide Convention!
Jallow hammered home the human toll: 2017 military crackdown drove 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh amid mass killings, rapes, village burnings—joined by 10 nations like Germany, France, UK; Myanmar denies it all, despite 2020 provisional orders to protect them (Aung San Suu Kyi once defended, now jailed post-coup).
Hearings run through January’s end, final ruling TBD—parallels to South Africa’s Gaza-Israel genocide suit spotlight ICJ’s genocide reckoning!
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