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Lawyers from Gambia have urged the United Nations’ top court to reject Myanmar’s legal attempt to end a case of genocide by the Southeast Asian country against Rohingya Muslims, after the Buddhist nation tried to get the case dismissed.
The United Nations’ highest court is set to hear Myanmar’s preliminary objections to a genocide case brought against it over a brutal 2017 crackdown by the military on the Rohingya Muslim minority.
Counselor of the US Department of State Chollet Derek says the country will continue to slap new sanctions on the Myanmar military and its affiliates.
The United Nations says at least 1,500 people have been killed and thousands more detained in year-long protests against the military coup in Myanmar.
Myanmar's military has detained at least three people working for an independent news portal as the junta's crackdown on independent media has been intensifying since last year's coup.
Hundreds of Buddhist monks fled two major towns in Myanmar, a witness said Sunday, among thousands recently displaced by intense fighting between the military and rebel groups opposed to last year's coup.
The United Nations (UN) special envoy to Myanmar has called on Southeast Asian nations to support international efforts to engage all sides to the conflict in Myanmar in order to find a peaceful solution to the escalating violence in the country.
The US has turned a blind eye on the import of Myanmar teak despite purported sanctions, according to a new report.
Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to four more years in prison, after a military court convicted her of three criminal charges.
Indonesia says it will allow a boat packed with persecuted Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar stranded off its coast to dock.