Aung San Suu Khyi will face a legal team from Gambia. Why? Well it's a story of happen-chance. Last year Gambia's Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou visited Bangladesh for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's annual conference. What he saw and heard there recalled for him painful memories of the Rwandan genocide where he had prosecuted cases.
With the OIC delegation he visited Rohingya refugee camps to hear repeated stories of rape, murder and arson, and on his return he was able to convince the OIC to file a case with the ICJ. It is the first of its kind since the 1990s from the then demised Yugoslavia -- the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina versus Serbia and Montenegro charging genocide filed in 1993.
And a timely warning to over-enthused promoters of religious nationalism willing to step over the line of human decency and respect for the other. Look where it leads.
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