UN’s Top Court Opens Landmark Myanmar Rohingya Genocide Case 

The top court of the United Nations has opened a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority. 
  
Myanmar’s military deliberately targeted the Rohingya minority in a bid to destroy the community, The Gambia’s Justice Minister Dawda Jallow told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday. 
 
“It is not about esoteric issues of international law. It is about real people, real stories, and a real group of human beings. The Rohingya of Myanmar. They have been targeted for destruction,” Jallow said. 
  
The Gambia filed the case against Myanmar at the ICJ, also known as the World Court, in 2019, two years after the country’s military launched an offensive that forced some 750,000 Rohingya from their homes, mostly into neighboring Bangladesh. The refugees recounted mass killings, rape, and arson attacks. 
  
The trial is the first genocide case the ICJ has taken up in full in more than a decade, and its outcome will have repercussions beyond Myanmar, likely affecting South Africa’s petition against Israel over its genocidal war on Gaza. The hearings will span three weeks. 
  
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