UN Court to Rule on Rohingya Genocide Case Nov 19
Judges at the International Court of Justice are close to a ruling on a case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar. The Gambia says Myanmar's brutal repression of the Rohingya broke the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. The judges have been weighing these accusations for seven years, and the ruling is due on November 19.
Context
The Rohingya are a Muslim minority from Myanmar's Rakhine state, and about 700,000 fled to Bangladesh after a military crackdown in 2017. The ICJ is the UN's top court, and it settles disputes between countries.
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