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Myanmar Faces Genocide Hearings at The Hague

Reuters

   THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - In a wood-paneled hall of the ornate Peace
   Palace at The Hague, lawyers pressing a case against Myanmar for
   alleged genocide against its Muslim Rohingya minority will next week
   ask judges to order immediate action to protect them from further
   violence.

   Gambia, a tiny, mainly Muslim West African country, filed a lawsuit in
   November accusing Myanmar of genocide, the most serious international
   crime.

   During three days of hearings starting Dec. 10, it will ask the
   16-member panel of U.N. judges at the International Court of Justice
   (ICJ) to impose "provisional measures" to protect the Rohingya before
   the case can be heard in full.

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