5 European nations and Canada seek to join genocide case against Myanmar at top UN court

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MIKE CORDER Associated Press
November 16, 2023, 

Five European nations and Canada are seeking to join a case brought by Gambia at the United Nations’ highest court accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its Rohingya minority.


THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Five European countries and Canada are seeking to join a case brought by Gambia at the United Nations' highest court that accuses Myanmar of committing genocide against its Rohingya minority.

The International Court of Justice said Thursday that Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK had joined with Canada in filing a “declaration of intervention in the case.” The Maldives filed a separate declaration.

Myanmar junta sets its sights on Rohingya ahead of UN court deadline

Frontier
Myanmar
April 7, 2023

A Rohingya family arrives for a meeting with Myanmar officials in Teknaf in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar District on March 15 as part of supposed repatriation efforts. (AFP)

Ahead of this month’s deadline to submit arguments and evidence to the International Court of Justice, the military regime has been using questionable methods to collect testimony from Rohingya, at times even allegedly pressuring them to change their story.

 

Ko Win Maung’s* village in Rathedaung Township, once home to a large Rohingya population, was one of the first to be attacked in 2017 during the military’s crackdown in northern Rakhine State. It was shortly after lunchtime on August 25 when soldiers arrived in Zaydipyin and began torching houses, forcing Win Maung and more than 650 other Rohingya to flee.

UN Court Calls on Myanmar to Settle The Case of The Rohingya Refugees at Once

albawaba
August 26th, 2020

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi attends a meeting of the Union Peace Dialogue during the 4th Union Peace Conference (21st Century Panglong) at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyidaw on August 20, 2020. THET AUNG / AFP 

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The ICJ case that the Gambia has brought can and should be part of a broader political strategy aimed at creating the changes that are needed in Myanmar to make it possible for the Rohingya to return to Rakhine and to live safe and dignified lives

Myanmar files first Rohingya case report to top UN court

THE Star
Tuesday, 26 May 202

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses judges of the International Court of Justice for the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands in December 2019. Myanmar on Tuesday (May 26) have submitted a report outlining its claims of compliance with an order from the International Court of Justice to protect members of its Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority. - AP

THE HAGUE/YANGON: Myanmar has submitted its first report to the International Court of Justice on steps it has taken to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims, the UN's top court said Tuesday morning (May 26).

Myanmar submits first Rohingya case report to top UN court

DAILY SABAH
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY -
AFP
THE HAGUE ASIA PACIFIC
MAY 25, 2020

 Myanmar has submitted its first report to the International Court of Justice on steps it has taken to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims, the U.N.'s top court said Monday.

The ICJ made a provisional order in January that majority-Buddhist Myanmar must take "all measures within its power" to stop the alleged genocide of the minority group, and that it must report to the court at regular intervals.