The International Court of Justice hearing about the persecution of the Rohingya, a minority of Myanmar's Muslims, was held for the first time after last year's coup, and a representative dispatched by the Myanmar army appeared.
The trial killed a large number of Rohingya people and forced more than 700,000 people to evacuate to neighboring Bangladesh in a large-scale military operation conducted by the Myanmar military in 2017 in western Myanmar. Regarding the problem, Myanmar's national responsibility is held for any act that violates the treaty prohibiting genocide.
The hearing began in 19 at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands, but the state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, who had stood in the court, was detained in a coup d'etat last February. At the first court hearing after the coup d'etat on the day, Mr. Ko Ko Flyin, a military graduate dispatched by the Myanmar Army, appeared in court.
In it, he claimed that "the court has no jurisdiction."
The next trial will be held on the 23rd of this month, and the plaintiff's allegations from the Gambian side of West Africa will be made, but it is expected that it will take a long time before the court's decision is announced.
On the other hand, the "National Unity Government of Myanmar", which was launched by the pro-democracy forces that resist the military, responded to the trial by saying, "The military has no authority to represent the country and should proceed with the actual trial promptly." I am.