Putting her case forward: Suu Kyi (centre) standing before the International Court of Justice in the Peace Palace of The Hague, on the second day of her hearing on the Rohingya genocide case. — AFP
The Hague: Former peace icon Aung San Suu Kyi told the UN’s top court there was no “genocidal intent” in Myanmar’s crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, despite admitting that the army may have used excessive force.
The 1991 Nobel peace laureate rejected the “misleading and incomplete” allegations by The Gambia that Myanmar’s 2017 military operation amounted to an attempt to exterminate the Rohingya.
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