Aung San Suu Kyi Defends Myanmar Military Against Genocide Charges
- The court to hear more arguments from Gambia, Myanmar
- Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Aung San Suu Kyi stands before the UN's International Court of Justice in the Hague on Dec. 11.
Photographer: Koen van Weel/AFP via Getty Images
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Myanmar’s de facto leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the International Court of Justice on Wednesday to deny allegations the military had committed genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims.
The small Muslim-majority nation of Gambia that brought the case against Myanmar had laid out a detailed and graphic case a day earlier, saying thousands of Rohingya Muslims were systematically raped and murdered at the hands of Myanmar’s military. It is calling for temporary measures to protect the Rohingya community.