Dhaka, Dec. 13 -- She decided to face the lawsuit by herself," proclaimed National League of Democracy (NLD) spokesman Myo Nyunt about his boss, Myanmar's state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. He was referring to her decision to lead the country's delegation of lawyers to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on 10-12 December 2019, where Myanmar stands accused of having committed acts of genocide.

The Republic of the Gambia, on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and supported by Abubacarr M. Tambadou, a high-profile lawyer with expertise on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, has submitted a lawsuit that invokes the 1948 Convention for the Punishment and Prevention of Genocide. As a party to this convention, w...