Aung San Suu Kyi rejected accusations of genocide committed against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority as ‘incomplete and misleading,’ and said the case should not be heard by the United Nations’ highest court
THE HAGUE - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday rejected accusations of genocide committed against her country’s Muslim Rohingya minority as “incomplete and misleading”, and said the case should not be heard by the U.N.’s highest court.
“Gambia has placed an incomplete and misleading picture of the factual situation in Rakhine state in Myanmar,” she said. Last year, Myanmar’s military announced seven soldiers involved in a massacre of 10 Rohingya men and boys in the village of Inn Din in September 2017 had been sentenced to “10 years in prison with hard labor in a remote area”. They were granted early release after less than a year in the prison.
The tribunal has no enforcement powers, but its rulings are final and carry significant international weight.
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