U.N.'s Top Court Orders Myanmar to Take All Measures to Prevent Genocide Against Rohingya

TIME
 Laignee Barron
Updated: January 23, 2020

The president of the International Court of Justice, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (C) speaks during the ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on January 23, 2020 in the lawsuit filed by The Gambia against Myanmar in which Myanmar is accused of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
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In a landmark verdict, the United Nation’s highest court ruled Thursday that it has the authority to consider a genocide case against Myanmar and ordered the country to prevent genocide from being committed against its Rohingya Muslim minority.

Myanmar treatment of Rohingya named ‘apartheid‘

LAKELAND OBSERVER

By Lakeland Staff Writer on April 17, 2019

In this May 15, 2013, file photo, Rohingya children displaced following 2012 sectarian violence play with a kite in the foreground of a cluster of makeshift camps for refugees outside Sittwe, (AP photo)

Myanmar has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to “dehumanising apartheid”, Amnesty International said Tuesday in a report that raises questions about what those who have fled a violent military crackdown would face if they returned home.

‘Safe zones’ for the Rohingya are a prelude to apartheid — and worse

The Washington Post  

By Azeem Ibrahim  

March 20 at 3:48 PM

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 Rohingya refugees gather at a market in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on March 7. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)

Azeem Ibrahim is a director at the Center for Global Policy and author of “Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide.”

Bangladesh is once again calling for the establishment of safe zones for the Rohingya in Myanmar, so that it can begin resettling some of the 1 million or so refugees in its care around the district of Cox's Bazar . This is not the first time that the government in Dhaka has pushed for this. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pressed Myanmar on the issue before the U.N. General Assembly in September 2017.

( 21.11.2016 ) The of Rohingya and Malaysia’s apathy

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Raudah Mohd Yunus | Published: 21 Nov 2016 

In the past few weeks, the world has witnessed fresh, new waves of violence against ‘the most persecuted group in the world’. On Oct 31, 2016, The Independent reported widespread killing and raping of Rohingya minority by Burmese soldiers.