Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi shaking hands with supporters after giving a speech in Monywa, Myanmar. She will be leaving for Hague on Saturday Dec 6. - Reuters
THE HAGUE: In a wood-panelled hall of the ornate Peace Palace at The Hague, lawyers pressing a case against Myanmar for alleged genocide against its Muslim Rohingya minority will next week ask judges to order immediate action to protect them from further violence.
Gambia, a tiny, mainly Muslim West African country, filed a lawsuit in November accusing Myanmar of genocide, the most serious international crime.
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