Myanmar junta, ousted government fight for recognition at top U.N. court

REUTERS
By Anthony Deutsch
and Poppy Mcpherson
February 18, 2022

Soldiers cross a street as people gather to protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

A general view of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Eva Plevier/File Photo 

Summary

• Part of ICJ case on alleged genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya
• Two members of Myanmar junta legal team on U.S. sanctions list
• Ousted government says it, not junta, should represent Myanmar
• Court declines comment on how legal agents are accredited
• Hearings set to begin Monday, a year since military coup

AMSTERDAM/BANGKOK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 17 story corrects to "government" from "National Unity Government (NUG)" in paragraph 4; restores reference to NUG in paragraph 8)

Myanmar junta’s role in Rohingya case at ICJ is troubling

ASIA TIME

Parvej Siddique Bhuiyan
February 17, 2022

By allowing the coup regime to present a defense at upcoming genocide hearings, the court risks legitimizing the junta  

The Palace of Peace in The Hague, the official residency of the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Photo: AFP

 

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) recently announced that it will hold a fresh round of hearings from February 21-28 into the Rohingya genocide case.

After the military-led “clearance operation” that forced 750,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, the West African nation The Gambia in November 2019 brought a case to the ICJ accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Sebastian Strangio

February 03, 2022

Assuming responsibility for the ICJ case is a means for the National Unity Government to assert its position as Myanmar’s legitimate government.

Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government (NUG) says that it has accepted the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear claims that the country committed genocide against the Rohingya minority group, after formally withdrawing “all preliminary objections” in the case.

The Unfolding Crisis in Burma

May 4, 2021 1:00 PM

Location: Hearing will be held virtually via Cisco WebEx


Witnesses

His Excellency Kyaw Moe Tun
Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations
Ms. Khin Ohmar
Founder and Chairperson of the Advisory Board
Progressive VoiceThe Honorable Kelley E. Currie
Former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

Documents

• Hearing notice

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