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Al Jazeera Staff

‘Important opportunity’: Myanmar Rohingya genocide case to resume

A Rohingya woman cries after crossing the border to safety in Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is beginning proceedings to hear Myanmar’s preliminary objections to a genocide case brought against it over a brutal 2017 crackdown by the military on the mostly Muslim Rohingya.

The proceedings, which start Monday,  have been given added urgency and complicated by the coup that took place in Myanmar a little more than a year ago.

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