Myanmar called it counter-terrorism, Israel makes a similar claim, and the ICJ is about to test the defense
The powerful have long reached for one phrase to excuse mass killing: counter-terrorism. Now the International Court of Justice is deciding whether that alibi can shield a state from the charge of genocide. In The Gambia v. Myanmar, judges are weighing the 2017 campaign that drove more than 700,000 Rohingya from their homes, and their ruling will echo from Rakhine State to Gaza. If brutality wrapped in the language of security can still be genocide, a legal wall protecting future perpetrators begins to crack.
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