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Nobel laureate Suu Kyi denies Rohingya genocide in top U.N. court

She argued that Myanmar has been fighting insurgents rather than persecuting its minority Rohingya Muslim population.

Aung San Suu Kyi delivers her Nobel speech in Oslo in 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi delivers her Nobel speech in Oslo in 2012 (AN/Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry)

Once an icon of democracy and human rights, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi stood before the International Court of Justice to deny her nation's military committed genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority.

Suu Kyi appeared on Wednesday at the ICJ, the United Nations' top court, in response to a lawsuit filed by Gambia on behalf of the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, on charges that Myanmar violated the 1951 U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

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