Gambia accuses Myanmar of Rohingya 'genocide' at top UN court

Representatives of the Rohingya community and Gambia's Justice Minister Aboubacarr Tambadou, left, listen to testimony during a press conference in The Hague

Source: AP

Myanmar has been accused of perpetrating genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority in a landmark lawsuit filed at the United Nations’ top court. The lawsuit - filed by the small West African country of the Gambia in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) - accuses Myanmar of breaching the 1948 UN Genocide Convention through a military campaign targeting Rohingya in Rakhine state. The 2017 crackdown forced at least 740,000 Rohingya to flee over the border into sprawling camps in Bangladesh.



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