World’s failure to act over Myanmar is ‘stain on collective conscience’, court toldAung San Suu Kyi has sat through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape perpetrated by Myanmar’s military at the start of a three-day hearing at the United Nations’ top court into allegations of genocide against the Rohingya.“I stand before you to awaken the conscience of the world and arouse the voice of the international community,” Abubacarr Marie Tambadou, the Gambia’s attorney general and justice minister, said as he opened his country’s case against Myanmar at the international court of justice in the Hague. “In the words of Edmund Burke, ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’.” Continue reading…
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