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Hague trial: Aung San Suu Kyi denies genocide in Myanmar

ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ, 2020, №1(46), 115-126

 
Annotation: The article is devoted to the amazing events of the end of 2019 related to the situation of Myanmar in the international community. This is an unprecedented claim by the Gambia to the International Court of Justice against Myanmar and the decision of Aung San Suu Kyi to personally lead a group of lawyers to attend court sessions in the Hague. The leader of Myanmar denies charges of genocide and says that army units acted against militant separatists in Rakhine state − the Arakan Rohingya salvation Army fighters. Aung San Suu Kyi is convinced that the military operations against the militants were aimed at protecting the sovereignty and security of Myanmar. Special attention is paid to the speech of the leader of Myanmar at the trial.

Keywords: Myanmar, Gambia, genocide, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hague, the International Court of Justice, Aung San Suu Kyi’s ICJ speech