Myanmar’s legal team issued a defiant defense at the Peace Palace, telling the United Nations’ highest court that its 2017 military campaign against the Rohingya minority was a "proportionate" counter-terrorism operation rather than a systematic effort to commit genocide.
The arguments on Friday marked a pivotal moment in the first full merits trial for genocide held by the International Court of Justice in more than a decade. The proceedings in The Gambia v. Myanmar have resumed at a time when the Southeast Asian nation is fractured by civil war and reeling from a catastrophic earthquake that struck last year.
