UN Court to Hold Myanmar Genocide Hearings in January

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—The United Nations top court announced on Friday that fresh public hearings in a case accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Muslim Rohingya minority will take place in January 2026.

Filed by The Gambia to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2019, the case accuses the southeast Asian country’s authorities of violating the UN genocide convention during a brutal crackdown by the army and Buddhist militias on the Rohingya in 2017.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled the bloodshed, while witnesses reported murders, rape and arson targeting the minority.