Questions and Answers: International Court of Justice Judgment in Myanmar Genocide Case
Human Rights Watch offers a question-and-answer explainer of the International Court of Justice judgment, due November 19, 2026, in Gambia's case accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Rohingya, whose 2017 massacres, rape, and arson in northern Rakhine State forced more than 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh. Gambia, the first country with no direct connection to the crimes to invoke the Genocide Convention, asks the court to find Myanmar breached the convention and to order reparations, while Myanmar says its operations were counterterrorism against Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacks; the explainer also covers provisional measures, parallel ICC and universal-jurisdiction efforts, and HRW's call for a Security Council referral.
