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International-UN-NGOs

Gambia files Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar at UN court

2019-11-12

[Al Jazeera] The Gambia
... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
has filed a case at the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
' top court accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya minority.

Lawyers for The Gambia said in a statement on Monday that the case also asks the International Court of Justice to urgently order measures "to stop Myanmar's genocidal conduct immediately".

The Gambia filed the case on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

Myanmar's military unleashed a brutal campaign against the Rohingya in August 2017 in response to attacks by an gang. More than 700,000 Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh to escape what has been called an ethnic cleansing campaign involving mass rapes, killings and burning of their homes.
So what actually happened was that, rather than spend years fighting an Islamic insurgency kicked off by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army and a few clones, the Burmese just dumped the entire Rohingya population, which they considered invasive in the first place.

Ah. So ethnic cleansing instead of genocide. That’s a comfort.

The head of a UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar warned last month that "there is a serious risk of genocide recurring".

The mission also said in its final report in September that Myanmar should be held responsible in international legal forums for alleged genocide against the Rohingya, a majority-Moslem ethnic group that has long faced persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

Myanmar's UN ambassador Hau Do Suan last month called the UN fact-finding mission "one-sided" and based on "misleading information and secondary sources". He said Myanmar's government took accountability seriously and that perpetrators of all human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
violations "causing the large outflow of displaced persons to Bangladesh must be held accountable".

Posted by:Fred

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