Possible genocide against the Rohingya in Burma: the International Court of Justice will deliver its judgment on November 19

The highest court of the United Nations will deliver its judgment on November 19 aimed at determining whether the repression carried out by Burma against its Rohingya minority, mainly Muslim, constituted a genocide, we learned on Tuesday from the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

For seven years, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have been examining accusations by The Gambia that Burma's brutal repression of the Rohingya violated the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.

The court, which sits in The Hague, has no way of enforcing its decisions, but a ruling favorable to Gambia would put significant political pressure on Myanmar and be welcomed as an act of justice for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya.

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