PATHEIN, Myanmar (AFP): Nearly 100 Rohingya appeared in a Myanmar court Wednesday (Dec 11) after being arrested for trying to flee persecution, their lawyer said, as leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the UN's top court to deny allegations of a genocidal campaign against the ethnic minority.
One-by-one, the weary detainees stepped down from a police van at the courthouse in the western Myanmar city of Pathein.
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