European countries join ICC case against Myanmar’s Genocide of Rohingya Muslims: Latest updates and international interventions

2023-11-17 13:48:00

Genocide of Rohingya Muslims; European countries join the case once morest Myanmar

Napido: Five European countries have joined the International Criminal Court case once morest Myanmar’s genocide once morest Rohingya Muslims.

In 2019, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain gave a joint intervention declaration in the case given by Gambia.

The European countries said that the intention is to protect the interests of the 1948 Convention for the Prevention of Genocide.

Germany’s director general of legal affairs, Tania von Uslar, noted in X that their goal is to prevent attacks on women and children and that they also want to contribute to the prevention of genocide.

The International Court of Justice also informed that Maldives has given another declaration accusing Myanmar of genocide.

Under the International Criminal Court’s statute, the declaration means that these countries can raise legal arguments.

The case was filed in 2019 at a time when international protests once morest the brutal violence once morest the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, were on the rise.

Following the Myanmar military operation in 2017, 730,000 Rohingyas migrated to neighboring Bangladesh. In the meantime, the fact finding mission of the UN informed that ethnic cleansing took place.

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