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Lawyer: Genocide Case Against Myanmar Based on 'Compelling' Evidence

Radio Free Asia

   An attorney assisting Gambia with its lawsuit against Myanmar alleging
   state-sponsored genocide at the U.N.'s top court said Thursday that he
   was confident that the West African nation would win the case based on
   copious, strong evidence of army atrocities against the Muslim
   Rohingyas.

   "The evidence is plentiful," Paul Reichler, an attorney at Foley Hoag
   LLC in Washington, told Radio Free Asia's Myanmar service. He spoke a
   day after the Myanmar government announced that State Counselor and
   Foreign Affairs Minister Aung San Suu Kyi would lead a team in
   defending the country at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in
   The Hague, the Netherlands.

   "There are many, many fact-finding reports by U.N. missions, by special
   rapporteurs, by human rights organizations," Reichler said.

   "There is satellite photography, and there are many, many statements by
   officials and army personnel from Myanmar, which all together show that
   the intention of the state of Myanmar has been to destroy the Rohingya
   as a group in whole or in part," he said.

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