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Myanmar), commonly referred to as the Rohingya genocide case, [1] [2] is a case which is currently being heard by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The case was brought forward by the Republic of The Gambia , on behalf of 57 members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in 2019.
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.The genocide has consisted of two phases [3] [4] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. [5]
The DI MA-1 Mk. III is a family of bullpup assault rifles made by the Myanmar Directorate of Defence Industries, chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO, based on the QBZ-97s that were exported to Myanmar in 2009. [3] [4] The MA-1 Mk. IIIs were made without any licensing agreements with China, and Myanmar claimed that they were made without foreign ...
On 7 June 2023, Thai authorities announced that they have stopped power supply to KK Park and Shwe Kokko because Myanmar military junta did not renew the power supply contract. [5] On 3 September 2023, in a joint Sino-Myanmar operation against internet fraud, a police station near KK Park was bombed by drones, causing five deaths (including the ...
On 11 April 2023, the Myanmar Air Force massacred at least 165 people [1] in the village of Pazigyi, Kantbalu Township, which is located 92 miles (148 km) west of Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city. The air force used fighter jets and helicopters to attack a large crowd of people gathering for the opening of a local office of an opposition ...
While Myanmar was still under military control, its Central Bank implemented controls in accordance with the IMF's Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) guidelines. As a result, Myanmar was removed from the international Financial Action Task Force's list of "Non-cooperative Countries and Territories" in October 2006.
During the massacre, Myanmar Army troops and Myanmar Police Force officers killed at least sixty-five individuals. [2] The massacre became one of the deadliest domestic incidents to occur in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état , and marked a serious escalation in the military's violence against civilians resisting the coup.
13 September, Myanmar's presidential spokesman announced Myanmar would establish a new commission to implement some recommendations of Annan's Rakhine Commission, in their August 2017 report. [ 243 ] The United Nations initially reported in early September 2017 that more than 120,000 Rohingya people had fled Myanmar for Bangladesh due to a ...