THE HAGUE: Gambia has recorded a case at the United Nations' top court blaming Myanmar for submitting destruction against its Rohingya Muslim minority, Gambian Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou said on Monday.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), otherwise called the World Court, is the United Nations' top legitimate establishment that rules on questions between states.
Both Gambia and Myanmar are signatories to the 1948 Genocide Convention, which restricts states from carrying out decimation as well as urges all signatory states to counteract and rebuff the wrongdoing of massacre.
"We have recently presented our application to the ICJ under the Genocide Convention," Tambadou told a news gathering in The Hague, where the court is based.
"The point is to get Myanmar to represent its activity against its very own kin: the Rohingya. It is a disgrace for our age that we don't do anything while destruction is unfurling directly under our very own eyes."
His small West African country, which is dominatingly Muslim, has recorded its case with the help of the Organization for Islamic Coooperation (OIC).
More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to neighboring Bangladesh following a 2017 crackdown by Myanmar's military, which U.N. agents have said was executed with "destructive aim".
Myanmar, which has a Buddhist dominant part, prevents allegations from securing massacre and says its crackdown focused on activist separatists in Rakhine state.
In its recording, Gambia requested that the court award purported temporary measures to ensure Myanmar promptly "stops abominations and destruction against its very own Rohingya individuals".
The law office helping Gambia, Foley Hoag, said it anticipated the principal hearings on the temporary measures to happen one month from now.
Human rights bunches which have been driving the universal network to act in the Rohingya emergency hailed Gambia's turn.
"Gambia has figured out how to transform the universal network's handwringing over the Rohingya energetically," Param-Preet Singh of Human Rights Watch told Reuters.
While the ICJ has no way to authorize any of its decisions, conflicting with the choices of the court could additionally hurt Myanmar's worldwide notoriety.
