Suu Kyi’s argument: 1) The situation is one of armed conflict 2) It’s not genocide 3) If war crimes were committed, then they will be prosecuted in Myanmar, let us handle accountability at home 4) Forget the Fact Finding Mission, the Commission of Enquiry is credible. #Rohingya
— Matthew Smith (@matthewfsmith) December 11, 2019
Suu Kyi tells the ICJ judges: “Hate narratives are not confined to hate speech. Language that contributes to extreme polarization contributes to hate narratives.” Here she is referring, in not so many words, to documentation and allegations of genocide by rights groups and others
— Matthew Smith (@matthewfsmith) December 11, 2019
Considerable crowds already congregating, Su Myant Mon tells me she’s here to stand with Mother Suu Kyi #Myanmar #ICJ pic.twitter.com/NwuvcZkVGc
— anna holligan 🎙 (@annaholligan) December 11, 2019
#Myanmar pic.twitter.com/pF1udDXDeF
— anna holligan 🎙 (@annaholligan) December 11, 2019
Long drive to justice. Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived at court to defend an army accused of genocide #ICJ pic.twitter.com/fePsOKkW6v
— anna holligan 🎙 (@annaholligan) December 11, 2019
This morning.
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi begins to give evidence at the UN’s International Court of Justice in the Peace Palace, The Hague.
Earlier, supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi gathered outside the court ahead of her arrival for a hearing into allegations that a military campaign by Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslim minority amounted to genocide.
Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘No tolerance’ for human rights violations against Rohingya (Sky News)
Suu Kyi leads genocide defence at World Court (RTÉ)
Top pic: Matthew Smith
jaysus, how did we get it soo wrong with that one..
Was thinking the same thing; mad to think how venerated she was 10 or even 5 years’ ago.
I think there’s a strong case to be made that the reason for the reversal is because her government have refused to play ball with Western Imperialists, who see mineral-rich Myanmar as a geopolitical prize, but. are instead embracing the “New Silk Road”.
The same tactics were then employed as before in places like Iraq, Libya and Syria – employ armed Islamic militants to destablise the region but label them “freedom fighters”. Then supposed NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch (whose tacit function is to act as a propaganda arm for the western imperialism) move in to produce one-sided narratives which manipulate public opinion in the West.
https://www.thepensivequill.com/2017/11/the-myanmar-deception.html
It’s apparent that human rights atrocities have been committed but with the obvious Eurocentric bias of the ICJ and Gambia playing the role of colonial puppet to try and mask that fact, can we honestly expect her to get an impartial hearing? Certainly not in western media
Amnesty Ireland and Colm O’Gormans BFF
wonderful people