UN court hears allegations of Myanmar’s Rohingya atrocities
Aung San Suu Kyi attends International Court of Justice hearings in case brought by Gambia
10 December 2019 - 17:07
The Hague — Gambia’s legal team described mass rapes, the burning of families in their homes and killing of dozens of Muslim Rohingya children with knives as it set out its genocide case against Myanmar at the UN’s International Court of Justice on Tuesday.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate, looked on impassively as the alleged atrocities were detailed at the beginning of three days of hearings in The Hague instituted by Gambia against Buddhist-majority Myanmar in November...
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