"For victims and survivors of the Rohingya community, this is an incredible development, and it's truly a testament to the resilience of the countless activists, survivors who kept pushing for justice, and keep pushing for justice in different avenues,"
"So, yes, absolutely I would say that this is a landmark case, and a very important development in a landmark case,"
"There are all kinds of stalling tactics that are used, and we've seen the military do that in this case challenging jurisdiction, asking for extensions of time, and so forth. And the court is reasonably tolerant of those kinds of maneuvers,"
The International Court of Justice in The Hague began hearings in a genocide case accusing Myanmar of crimes against the Rohingya. The Gambia filed the case in November 2019 under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Myanmar is accused of a 2017 campaign of arson, rape and murder that drove roughly 700,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh. A 2018 UN-backed fact-finding mission estimated at least 10,000 likely deaths. Multiple cases have been filed against Myanmar and its military in courts worldwide, and this case is the first among them to reach hearings. Myanmar challenged jurisdiction and received several extensions.
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