NSTworld: “ AungSanSuuKyi is a big liar...We hate her,” said Hasmat Ali, 41, who fled to Bangladesh after the August 2017 crackdown. She .”.and the army commanders must be held accountable for the heinous crimes they committed on Rohingya.”
Gambia, which brought the suit at the U.N.’s top court under the 1948 Genocide Convention, has asked judges to order “provisional measures” that would act as a kind of restraining order for the Myanmar military until the case is heard in full.
Suu Kyi on Wednesday argued the tribunal, also known as the World Court, should not have jurisdiction. She said even if there had been violations of humanitarian law during what she described as an “internal conflict“, they did not rise to the level of genocide and are not covered by the Convention. Its decisions are binding and not subject to appeal, though it has no means of enforcement and countries have occasionally ignored them in the past or failed to fully adhere.
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