The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will deliver its judgment on November 19 in the case accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim population. The court made the announcement on Tuesday (November 3) night.
The judgment will be delivered at 10am local time in The Hague, the Netherlands, Anadolu Agency reported. The West African country The Gambia filed the case against Myanmar in 2019, and 11 countries have also taken part in the proceedings.
The Gambia accuses Myanmar of violating international law under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention through its military operations against the Rohingya. Members of the Rohingya community called the decision to bring the case to the UN’s highest court a historic achievement.
The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine State who have faced discrimination, persecution and displacement for decades.
The report said more than 700,000 Rohingya fled Rakhine State and took shelter in Bangladesh after the Myanmar military began its crackdown in August 2017. Various reports have found that thousands of Rohingya were killed by Myanmar’s security forces in that operation.
The United Nations has described the Rohingya as the most persecuted minority in the world. A report by the Canada-based Ontario International Development Agency also found that thousands of people were killed in the Myanmar security forces’ operations.
Against the background of this long crisis, the ICJ judgment is seen as significant. It will decide on Myanmar’s responsibility and international legal obligations under the Genocide Convention. What the final judgment will be is not yet known.
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