The ICJ ordered Myanmar in 2020 to take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of genocidal acts against the Rohingya minority

Overview Debates Related claims Topics Sources

A UN fact-finding commission concluded that Myanmar's 2017 military offensive against the Rohingya minority included genocidal acts

Myanmar's government denied genocide allegations before the ICJ, claiming its 2017 military operations were legitimate counterterrorism responses to insurgent attacks that killed a dozen security personnel

Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh recounted instances of mass rape, killings, and arson committed during Myanmar's 2017 military offensive

Myanmar official Ko Ko Hlaing argued during ICJ hearings in the Gambia-Myanmar genocide case in January 2026 that Gambia's genocide allegations were unsubstantiated

International Criminal Court prosecutors requested an arrest warrant in 2024 for Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing over alleged crimes against humanity

Former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi denied genocidal intent before the ICJ in 2019 and remains under house arrest in Naypyidaw following a 2021 military coup

A separate criminal investigation into Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya is underway in Argentina under the principle of universal jurisdiction

Judges at the International Court of Justice rejected a challenge by Myanmar to the court's jurisdiction, ruling that the court had the power to decide Gambia's genocide case against Myanmar

889bd89bfNews eventClaim

A survivor of military atrocities filed a criminal complaint, asking Danish authorities to investigate Myanmar junta commanders for war crimes and mass arson

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights warned on October 30, 2026 that Israeli forces squeezing Palestinians into ever-smaller areas of Gaza while destroying civilian infrastructure raises grave concerns of ethnic cleansing.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned that Israeli threats to empty and erase entire neighborhoods in Hebron raise serious concerns of ethnic cleansing.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that Israel's ongoing forcible transfer of Palestinians within the Gaza Strip constitutes a war crime that may amount to a crime against humanity.

Nick Koumjian, head of the U.N. Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, stated that the International Court of Justice is expected to issue a judgment regarding Myanmar's 2017 Rohingya crackdown.

U.N. Special Rapporteur Kelley Currie reported on October 30, 2026, that Myanmar's military junta is intentionally attacking civilians to terrorize them and force them into submission.

United Nations experts stated in September 2026 that there were reasonable grounds to believe the U.S. boat strikes constituted murder under international law.

Human rights groups and legal experts contend the lethal strikes against civilians outside an active battlefield violate international law and constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings.

Emergency Lawyers attributed the October 26, 2026 market strike in Nyala to the Sudanese military and requested an independent investigation.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk stated on October 26, 2026 that Israeli military actions in Hebron constituted illegal collective punishment.

Human Rights Watch reported on October 29, 2026 that the Houthi siege of Taiz could constitute a war crime for using starvation as a method of warfare.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in Cairo that unrelenting evictions and surging settler violence in the occupied West Bank create an increasingly coercive environment where the spectre of ethnic cleansing looms.