Rohingya Muslims were massacred while 740,000 Rohingya Muslims had to migrate to Bangladesh.
Malé … News Time
In the international court of justice, the African country Gambia has challenged Myanmar’s military operation in 2017; the operation largely massacred Rohingya Muslims, while 740,000 Rohingya Muslims had to migrate to Bangladesh. Now the Maldives is also going to be part of the case and a party against Myanmar. Maldives has hired Amal Colony to fight the case in the international court of justice. Amal Clooney is the wife of renowned lawyer and Hollywood actor George Clooney, who has fought several high profile cases before. Amal Clooney earlier represented the case of Mohamed Nasheed, the former Maldives president, in which the United Nations declared 13 years imprisonment against Mohamed Nasheed illegal. Amal Clooney has also advocated for Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange Julian Assange, he also fought the case of two journalists who were imprisoned by the Myanmar government for espionage.
Last year, Gambia filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice, saying that Myanmar’s minority Rohingya are continuing the genocide of Muslims. Gambia says it has the responsibility of being the signatory to the 1948 Genocide Convention to stop genocide and punish its perpetrators, even if they happen in any part of the world. Gambia presented the UN report in evidence as evidence that the Rohingya were prepared to kill Muslims, mass abuse and burn villages.
Gambia had requested the court to take emergency measures to protect the Rohingya Muslims, to prevent the situation from getting worse. The petition also requested that Myanmar be forced to preserve evidence of its atrocities and give it access to UN investigators. Myanmar chief Aung San Suu Kyi appeared at the hearing of the case, and he acknowledged although there are war crimes being carried out in Myanmar, they refuse to accept it as genocide. He also insisted in court that a crackdown and military operation against Rohingya Muslims was being carried out, however, its target is armed and militant Muslims in Rakhine state and nothing is being said about unarmed and unarmed Rohingya. On January 23, the international court of justice ordered the Myanmar government to stop the massacre of Rohingya Muslims, take steps to prevent the army from killing the Muslims and to prevent the loss of evidence in this regard. International Court of Justice Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf also announced the decision to allow Gambia to proceed with the trial. Maldives welcomes the international court of justice’s decision.
