THE HAGUE ¨C 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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