Myanmar Nationalists Protest ICJ Rohingya Genocide Case in Yangon

YANGON—A hundreds-strong crowd in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday against the country’s prosecution for genocide, a rare public protest permitted by military authorities accused of the atrocities against the Rohingya minority.

Myanmar is defending itself at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from allegations its crackdown on the mostly Muslim minority starting in 2017 breached the United Nations’ genocide convention.

Dancing to drums in downtown Yangon, the crowd of nationalist activists and saffron-robed monks twirled miniature national flags and toted banners denying accusations of ethnic cleansing being leveled in The Hague.