World court’s Rohingya case matters far beyond Myanmar

With hearings opening this month at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the genocide case concerning Myanmar and the Rohingya has entered its most consequential phase. Formally, the proceedings are about whether Myanmar violated the 1948 Genocide Convention. In reality, the case has evolved into something far larger: a stress test of whether international law can still function when regimes accused of mass atrocities manipulate legal institutions to shield themselves from accountability. The hearings in “The Gambia v. Myanmar” are historic in scale and scope.

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