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Myanmar junta disappointed top court rejects challenge to genocide case

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Myanmar's military junta on Saturday expressed disappointment with the decision of the United Nations' highest court to greenlight a landmark case concerning accusations of genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims.

of the United Nations' highest court to greenlight a landmark case concerning accusations of genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims.

The decision paves the way for full hearings at the court on allegations over a bloody 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya by majority-Buddhist Myanmar. The junta argued its objections were legally strong, the statement said, noting one judge had a dissenting opinion in one area. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled the Southeast Asian nation five years ago, amid harrowing reports of murder, rape and arson.

 

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