The UN’s highest court ruled on Friday that a landmark case filed by the Gambia, accusing Myanmar of the genocide of minority Rohingya Muslims, can proceed.
International Court of Justice president Joan Donoghue said the tribunal “finds that it has jurisdiction… to entertain the application filed by the Republic of the Gambia.”
During the operation, tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from the minority group left the Southeast Asian nation with a Buddhist majority, taking horrifying accounts of murder, rape, and burning with them.
In a statement, the ICJ, which is situated in The Hague, stated that it would “issue its verdict on the preliminary objections filed by Myanmar” at 1300 GMT.
