Overview
- Gambia’s justice minister told judges Myanmar used horrific violence to try to destroy the Rohingya community.
- The West African nation filed the case in November 2019 under the Genocide Convention after a 2017 military crackdown drove at least 730,000 people into Bangladesh.
- UNHCR estimates more than one million Rohingya now live in makeshift camps in Bangladesh after killings, rapes and arson.
- Myanmar denies genocide and describes its operations as a lawful counterterrorism response to militant attacks.
- Hearings are scheduled for three weeks, with a distant ruling expected and potential ripple effects for South Africa’s separate ICJ case concerning Israel and Gaza.