Aljazeera
2019-12-12
While defending military against genocide charges, Myanmar leader does not use Rohingya to describe persecuted minority.
Aung San Suu Kyi failed to use the word Rohingya in a 3,400-word speech at the ICJ [Koen Van Weel/ANP/AFP]
In a
speech on Wednesday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that lasted about 30 minutes, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi defended her country's military against allegations of genocide.
The case, filed by The Gambia, accuses Myanmar of violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, with regard to a bloody crackdown in 2017 in which thousands of Rohingya were abused, displaced and killed.
