Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi rejected accusations of genocide committed against her country's Muslim Rohingya minority as ‘incomplete and misleading’, and said the case should not be heard by the U.N.'s highest court
Gambia has argued it is every country’s duty under the convention to prevent a genocide from taking place, or to punish those responsible.While Suu Kyi conceded that disproportionate military force may have been used and civilians killed, she said the acts did not constitute genocide. And she argued Myanmar was taking steps to punish soldiers responsible for what it has previously said were isolated cases of wrongdoing.
Late last month, the military said it had begun a court martial of an unspecified number of soldiers over events in another village, Gu Dar Pyin, the site of a second alleged massacre of 10 Rohingya. The tribunal has no enforcement powers, but its rulings are final and carry significant international weight.
Myanmar lawyer William Schabas appealed to the court to reject the demand for an injunction and said the court did not have jurisdiction. Meanwhile in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon, where there have been demonstrations in support of Suu Kyi in recent days, several hundred people, including monks and government staff, watched a live broadcast of the hearings in a park. Some recorded her comments on their phones.
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