Sri Lanka, Jan. 12 -- Myanmar wanted to erase the Rohingya people through its use of "genocidal policies", The Gambia's foreign minister Dawda Jallow has told the UN's top court.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is hearing a landmark case brought by the Muslim majority, West African nation in 2019, which accuses Myanmar of deliberately trying to destroy the minority Muslim population. Myanmar has previously denied the allegations.

Jallow said The Gambia had reviewed "credible reports of the most brutal and vicious violations imaginably inflicted upon a vulnerable group".

Thousands of Rohingya were killed and more than 700,000 fled to neighbouring Bangladesh during an army crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.

Jallow told the court on ...