Preventing genocide in Myanmar: Court order tries to protect Rohingya Muslims where politics has failed
- Written by Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
The Myanmar military's years-long campaign against the Rohingya Muslims left hundreds of villages a smoldering pile of debris. Warpait village, Rakhine State, Oct.14, 2016.Ye Aung Thu/AFP via Getty ImagesMyanmar has been ordered by the International Court of Justice to take “provisional measures” to protect the Rohingya, an ethnic...