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From The Gambia\u2019s legal team, Jessica Jones highlighted how the Rohingya faced \u201clongstanding denigration\u201d and hate speech from senior and other members of the Myanmar military.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms. Jones also referred to a video posted on Facebook in August 2017 featuring a soldier displaying \u201cclear encouragement of genocidal violence against the Rohingya\u201d \u2013 actions that would be in clear breach of Myanmar\u2019s obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told them, and I quote, \u2018We will clear the villages where those animals live. We have guns, we have bullets. That’s what we came with, with ammunition and the spirit to attack the animals, we have come here. If you can carry a sword, carry a sword. If you can carry a stick, then carry a stick. Carry whatever you can and bravely face these animals.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The Gambia, a Muslim-majority nation, alleges that Myanmar’s military rulers committed brutal acts of genocide against the Rohingya people from 2016 to 2018 in northern Rakhine State.\u00a0<\/p>\n
These violations included mass executions, the indiscriminate killing of up to 10,000 civilians including women and children, widespread sexual violence and the deliberate burning of hundreds of villages.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Textbook ethnic cleansing’<\/h2>\n
In 2017, then UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein described the violence against the Rohingya as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing\u201d that had forced around 700,000 of them flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, where most remain today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2020, the international court ordered Myanmar to cease its genocidal acts, following a request from The Gambia, which is now seeking to hold Myanmar accountable for its actions and secure restitution and compensation for victims. Myanmar has long denied intentionally persecuting the Rohingya and cited carrying out counter-insurgency operations.<\/p>\n
Landmark case<\/h2>\n
The case is regarded widely as a watershed, as it is the first time that the ICJ judges are set to rule on a dispute brought by a country not impacted by the alleged crime.<\/p>\n
Next week, three Rohingya witnesses are scheduled to present their harrowing testimonies to the court as “members of \u201cthe wrong group at the wrong time and the wrong place\u201d who witnessed the killing of their spouses and children, The Gambia’s Philippe Sands said, in concluding remarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ICJ is the UN\u2019s top judicial body. It settles legal disputes between States and gives advisory opinions on questions of international law. It does not try individuals but determines State responsibility.<\/p>\n
The hearings at The Hague continue until 29 January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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