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(The Hague, December 10, 2019) \u2013 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) genocide hearings will include the first response by Myanmar to allegations of atrocities against the Rohingya before an independent and impartial court, Human Rights Watch said today. A Human Rights Watch \u201cQuestions and Answers<\/a>\u201d document explains the significance of the December 10-12, 2019 hearings, the process for enforcement of court orders, and other aspects of the proceedings in The Hague.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On November 11, Gambia, with the backing of the 57 members of the\u00a0Organisation for Islamic Cooperation<\/a>, filed\u00a0a case<\/a>\u00a0with the court alleging that the Myanmar military\u2019s atrocities in Rakhine State against Rohingya Muslims violate the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. On November 20, Myanmar recognized being\u00a0bound by the ICJ Statute<\/a>\u00a0and announced that its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, would lead the delegation to \u201cdefend the national interest of Myanmar.\u201d<\/p>\n

On December 9, the governments of\u00a0Canada and the Netherlands<\/a>\u00a0announced they considered it \u201ctheir obligation to support the Gambia before the ICJ, as it should concern all of humanity.\u201d Both Canada (1952) and the Netherlands (1966) are parties to the Genocide Convention. Other members of the Genocide Convention should also support Gambia\u2019s case, Human Rights Watch said.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the\u00a0United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar<\/a>\u00a0concluded that \u201cthe actions of those who orchestrated the attacks on the Rohingya read as a veritable check-list\u201d on how to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The\u00a0mission concluded<\/a>\u00a0in 2019 that \u201cthe State of Myanmar breached its obligation not to commit genocide under the Genocide Convention.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case before the ICJ is not a criminal case against individual alleged perpetrators, but a legal determination of state responsibility for genocide. Gambia has asked the court for provisional measures to require Myanmar to immediately take all steps to prevent genocidal acts, including to stop and prevent further genocidal acts; to ensure that security forces do not commit or incite genocidal acts; and to preserve all evidence related to the military\u2019s crimes.<\/p>\n

Gambia\u2019s filing was the first from a country without any direct connection to the alleged crimes that used the country\u2019s membership in the Genocide Convention to bring a case before the ICJ. Gambia, a small West African country, has only recently emerged from\u00a0the repressive 22-year rule of Yahyah Jammeh<\/a>\u00a0and its own history of human rights violations. After filing the case,\u00a0Gambian Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou said that<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe aim is to get Myanmar to account for its action against its own people: the Rohingya.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(The Hague, December 10, 2019) \u2013 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) genocide hearings will include the first response by Myanmar to allegations of atrocities against the Rohingya before an independent and impartial court, Human Rights Watch said today. 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