The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Friday threw out all of Myanmar's objections to a case filed by the west African nation of The Gambia in 2019. "Myanmar is disappointed that its preliminary objections were rejected," said a statement on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Facebook page. The junta argued its objections were legally strong, the statement said, noting one judge had a dissenting opinion in one area. Mainly-Muslim The Gambia filed the case alleging that Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya breached the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared in March that the Myanmar military's violence against the Rohingya amounted to genocide.

Source: Daily Nation July 23, 2022 23:00 UTC