The United Nations’s top court is set to open a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority. The trial on Monday is the first genocide case that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will take up in full in more than a decade, and its outcome will have repercussions beyond Myanmar, […]
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War-torn Myanmar voting in widely criticised ‘sham’ election
Kelly Ngand BBC Burmese,Mandalay EPA Myanmar’s military is holding a phased election over the next month Myanmar is voting in an election widely dismissed as a sham, with major political parties dissolved, many of their leaders jailed and as much as half the country not expected to vote because of an ongoing civil war. The […]