Izvor: NoviMagazin.rs, 28.Jan.2026, 20:44
Myanmar before The Hague Tribunal: Genocide
On January 12, in The Hague, the International Court of Justice returned to one of the heaviest and most sensitive narratives of contemporary international law. Before the judges of the United Nations’ highest judicial body, Myanmar is called upon to answer an accusation of extreme gravity: that of having violated the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by deliberately targeting the Muslim Rohingya minority. This procedure, initiated in 2019 by The Gambia with the support of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, extends far beyond the Burmese case alone. It unfolds at a historical moment in which the word genocide has once again become omnipresent in global public debate, particularly in relation to the war in Gaza and the accusations brought against Israel. In this emotionally charged context, shaped by politics and memory, comparison can be neither intuitive nor militant. It must be juridical.
