GAMBIA v. MYANMAR DAY 3 HEARING PART 1

EYEAFRICA TV: Hague, The Netherlands: American lawyer Paul Reichler told the International Court of Justice on Wednesday, that they do not contend that there was no insurgents in Myanmar’s alleged genocide against the Muslim Rohingya people during the cleanse operations.

Delivering his points of argument before the international tribunal in The Hague on Wednesday, in a genocidal case brought against the government of Myanmar by The Gambia, Reichler said Myanmar had justified that it’s cleanse operations were not intended at destroying Rohingya. “They said what they intended was to clear an area of the insurgents by deliberately killing Rohingya children, beaten to death or torn from their mother’s arms.”

On November 11, Gambia, with the backing of the 57 members of the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation, filed a case with the court alleging that the Myanmar military’s atrocities in Rakhine State against Rohingya Muslims violate the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

On November 20, Myanmar recognized being bound by the ICJ Statute and announced that its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, would lead the delegation to “defend the national interest of Myanmar.”

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