FILE - In this June 15,2012, file photo, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi briefs the media after a meeting with Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Norway government guest house in Oslo. Suu Kyi formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday June 16,2012, in the Norwegian capital, that originally thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
ON Dec 11, Myanmar’s State Counselor-cum-Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi (pix) stood at the podium of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague and defended her country against the accusation of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention over the military’s clearance operations in northern Rakhine state which caused more than 700,000 Rohingyas to flee the Southeast Asian country for Bangladesh.
On behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries, Gambia filed a case at the ICJ to order for “provisional measures” to “protect and preserve the rights” of the Rohingya minority.
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