Gambia will open its case against Myanmar before the UN’s top court in December accusing the mainly Buddhist state of genocide against its Rohingya Muslims, the tribunal said Monday.The small, majority-Muslim African country will ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to make an emergency injunction to protect the Rohingya, pending a decision on whether to deal with the wider case.Gambia’s case at the ICJ accuses Myanmar of breaching the 1948 UN Genocide Convention through a brutal mili

Myanmar faced accusations of genocide in a landmark lawsuit filed by Gambia at the United Nation’s top court on Monday over the Southeast Asian nation’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims, Gambia’s government said.Gambia said it was acting on behalf of the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in bringing the case against Myanmar before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.The lawsuit accuses mainly Buddhist Myanmar of breaching the 1948 UN Genocide Convention through a br

Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a "serious risk of genocide", UN investigators said Monday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains "impossible".The fact-finding mission to Myanmar, set up by the Human Rights Council, last year branded the army operations in 2017 as "genocide" and called for the prosecution of top generals, including army chief Min Aung Hlaing.Some 740,000 Rohingya fled burning vi

On 21 June, the government of Myanmar ordered mobile phone operators in the country to shut down all Internet data across at least eight townships in Rakhine and one in neighbouring Chin state.

Fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic Rakhine rebels has escalated in the western state's temple-studded town of Mrauk U, sources confirmed Wednesday, with reports of military jets streaking across the sky.Riven by complex ethnic and religious divides, Rakhine state was the epicentre of a brutal military campaign in 2017 that forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh.But the army is now locked in deadly battles with the Arakan Army (AA), a group that cla

A Myanmar court on Tuesday sentenced a prominent ethnic Rakhine leader to 20 years in jail for treason, a verdict likely to intensify anger amid fighting between the ethnic group and the army.Security forces tried to calm hundreds of supporters outside the court in Rakhine state capital Sittwe as Aye Maung was escorted to a waiting police van following the verdict.Aye Maung, the former chairman of the Arakan National Party – which is renowned for hard-line views against the Rohingya Muslim mi