Myanmar’s state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday (Dec.11) denied the allegation of ongoing genocide or genocidal intent at Rohingya villages in Rakhine of Myanmar.
She was speaking in Myanmar's defence at the UN's top court, a day after the Gambia urged her urged to stop the ongoing genocide against Rohingyas.
Rakhine today suffers an internal arm conflict between the Buddhist Arakan army and Myanmar defense forces. Muslims are not the part of this conflict, she informed the court.
Earlier defending her country, she said as a sovereign state Myanmar has own justice system for trial of any crime if committed in the Rakhine state.
Suu Kyi also criticized the Gambia for taking the issue to the International Court of Justice.
A 17-member panel of judges of ICJ was hearing a case, the first international legal attempt to bring Myanmar to justice over alleged mass killings of the Rohingya minorities in 2017 that forced 1 million Rohingyas to flee Myanmar, filed by the Gambia on November 11.
Yesterday, the Gambia accused Myanmar of breaching the 1948 genocide convention and urged the UN top court to order Myanmar to stop genocide against the Rohingya minority.
The African country unfolded the evidence of genocide against Rohingyas before the International Court of Justice and urged the court to prosecute the Myanmar generals responsible for the bloody crackdown.