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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Gambia insists allegations of genocide against the mostly Muslim Rohingya are legitimate after Myanmar tries to dismiss them. Lawyers for The Gambia have urged the United Nations\u2019s top court to throw out Myanmar\u2019s legal bid to end a case accusing the Southeast Asian nation of genocide<\/a> against Rohingya Muslims, after the Buddhist nation tried to get the case dismissed.<\/p>\n

Banjul dragged Myanmar<\/a> before the International Court of Justice in 2019, accusing it of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority following a bloody 2017 military crackdown.\u201cWe seek to protect not only the rights of the Rohingya, but our own rights as a state party to the genocide convention,\u201d The Gambia\u2019s attorney general Dawda Jallow told the court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

They were doing that \u201cby holding Myanmar to its … obligation not to commit genocide, not to incite genocide and to prevent unpunished genocide,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese violations of the genocide convention are a stain on our collective conscience and it would be irresponsible to pretend that it is not our business,\u201d the Gambian lawyer told judges.<\/p>\n

In court on Monday, Myanmar struck out at The Gambia for having brought the case before the Hague-based ICJ, set up after World War II to rule in disputes between countries.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Its lawyers accused The Gambia of not acting as a \u201ccountry in its own right\u201d, but as a proxy for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, a 57-member body set up in 1969 to represent global Muslim interests.Jallow dismissed that argument.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very much a dispute between The Gambia and Myanmar,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe make it our business when we, as civilised nations committed ourselves to the pact under the 1948 Genocide Convention,\u201d Jallow added.When the case opened in December 2019, Aung San Suu Kyi personally represented Myanmar at the ICJ, but she was deposed as the Asian country\u2019s civilian leader in a military coup last year.<\/p>\n

The Nobel peace laureate, who faced criticism from rights groups for her involvement in the case, is now under house arrest and on trial by the same generals she defended in The Hague.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Approximately 850,000 Rohingya are languishing in camps in neighbouring Bangladesh while another 600,000 Rohingya remain in Myanmar\u2019s southwestern Rakhine state.<\/p>\n

The Gambia\u2019s lawyers, quoting recent human rights organisation reports, said the Rohingya remained vulnerable. \u201cThe Rohingya remain at grave risk of mass atrocity crimes,\u201d lawyer Paul S Reichler warned the court.<\/p>\n

The Rohingya case at the ICJ has been complicated by the coup that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi and her civilian government, triggering mass protests and a military crackdown. More than 1,500 civilians have been killed, according to a local monitoring group.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The ICJ made a provisional order in January 2020 that Myanmar must take \u201call measures\u201d to prevent the alleged genocide of the Rohingya while the years-long proceedings are under way.<\/p>\n

But the European Union on Monday heaped more sanctions on Myanmar officials, saying it was \u201cdeeply concerned by the continuing escalation of violence in Myanmar and the evolution towards a protracted conflict with regional implications\u201d.<\/p>\n

The bloc slapped sanctions on 22 officials from the military, including the ministers for investment, industry and information, officials at the election commission and senior members of the military.<\/p>\n

The ICJ judges must now decide whether the court has the jurisdiction to hear the case. If so the case could still take several years. Decisions by its judges are final and cannot be appealed, although the court has limited means of enforcing them.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Gambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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