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International Court of Justice presiding judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf says the UN's top court has the authority to rule in an urgent case in which Myanmar is accused of genocide against Rohingya Muslims. IMAGES
Images outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN's top court, ahead of a landmark ruling on allegation of genocide in Gaza -- a case that has sparked global attention. The case was brought by South Africa, which has accused Israel of breaching the UN Genocide Convention, set up in 1948 as the world reeled from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. IMAGES
International Court of Justice presiding judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf declares that the UN's top court orders Myanmar to take "all measures within its power" to prevent alleged genocide against Rohingya Muslims. IMAGES
Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi tells the UN's top court there was no proof of "genocidal intent" behind her country's military campaign against Rohingya Muslims. SOUNDBITE
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's former democracy icon arrives at the International Court of Justice in The Hague for the second day of a trial over the bloody military crackdown in which thousands of people were killed and around 740,000 Rohingya minorities fled to neighbouring Bangladesh. Suu Kyi is expected to take the stand a day after Gambia urged the country to 'stop the genocide' against Rohingya muslims. IMAGES of her arrivals
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