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Argentine Court to Hear the Case Against Myanmar Military [1]

Blog Name: 
International Law in Brief [2]
Author: 
Şeymanur Yönt

On November 26, 2021, the Second Chamber of the Federal Criminal Court in Buenos Aires confirmed that, under the principle of universal jurisdiction, it would launch a genocide case against senior Myanmar officials for the Myanmar military’s treatment of the Rohingya. Read more about the case in the FT [3] (subscription required) or in a press release [4] by the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK)


Source URL: https://www.asil.org/ILIB/argentine-court-hear-case-against-myanmar-military

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[1] https://www.asil.org/ILIB/argentine-court-hear-case-against-myanmar-military
[2] https://www.asil.org/blog-name/international-law-brief
[3] https://www.ft.com/content/0a2c1a4c-269a-4121-b37f-0da41e53a618
[4] https://www.brouk.org.uk/historic-decision-by-argentinian-courts-to-take-up-genocide-case-against-myanmar/