Tun Khin of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation speaking to the press after the ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The UN's top court ordered Myanmar to take "all measures within its power" to prevent alleged genocide against Rohingya Muslims. - AFP
YANGON: Myanmar has put in place measures to protect Rohingya Muslims, a spokesman for the ruling party said on Friday (Jan 24), shrugging off an order from the International Court of Justice a day earlier to stop genocidal acts against the ethnic minority.
The Hague-based court ordered Myanmar to protect the persecuted Rohingya against further atrocities and preserve evidence of alleged crimes, after mostly Muslim Gambia launched a lawsuit in November accusing Myanmar of genocide.
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