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Aung San Suu Kyi says it’s ‘misleading’ to label Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims as genocide
- The Nobel Peace Prize laureate said there has been high levels of military force, but added the conflict in Rakhine state was ‘complex and not easy to fathom’
- The case against Myanmar was brought by Gambia, which has accused the Southeast Asian country of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention
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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the case brought against her country at the World Court was “incomplete and misleading” as she denied genocidal intent in her defence to accusations of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority on Wednesday.
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Gambia, a small West African country, has launched a case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice, the United Nation’s highest court, alleging the Southeast Asian country has violated the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Leading Myanmar’s defence herself at the court in The Hague Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s top political leader and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate acknowledged “disproportionate force” may have been used at times by the military, but said it did not prove it was trying to wipe out the minority group.
The conflict in the western Rakhine state was “complex and not easy to fathom”, she said.
“Regrettably Gambia has placed an incomplete and misleading picture of the factual situation in Rakhine state in Myanmar,” Suu Kyi said.
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