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A landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against minority Muslim Rohingya opened at the United Nations' top court on Monday (January 12). Gambia told judges that Myanmar targeted minority Muslim Rohingya for destruction and made their lives a nightmare. - REUTERS
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00:00A landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya opened at the
00:07United Nations top court on Monday. This is the first genocide case the International Court of
00:12Justice will hear in full in over a decade. The outcome is expected to have far-reaching
00:17repercussions, even impacting South Africa's genocide case against Israel over the Gaza
00:23conflict. Speaking in the egg before the hearings, Rohingya victims said they want a long-awaited
00:29court case to deliver justice. I would like to mention that this time we don't just hope to get
00:35justice. We demand it. And we would like to ask the court to take the actions against the Myanmar
00:40dictators, the leaders of the Myanmar military who committed the genocide. They have to be
00:46accountable and they should be punished. So this time we want to see a real, real output from the
00:52court and actions. The predominantly Muslim country of Gambia filed the case at the
00:58ICJ in 2019. They accused Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim
01:05minority in the Rakhine state. Myanmar has denied the genocide accusations. And I think it's a little
01:11unreasonable to expect us to resolve everything in 18 months. In 2017, Myanmar's military launched
01:19an offensive that forced at least 730,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh. There, they recounted stories
01:27of killings, mass rape and arson. A UN fact-finding mission said that the offensive had included acts
01:33that were, quote, genocidal. Myanmar rejected that report, saying its military offensive was in response
01:40to attacks by Muslim militants.
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