Giving Compass' Take:

· Writing for The Conversation, Catesby Holmes reports on the case brought by Gambia at the UN’s International Court of Justice against Myanmar for the genocide of Rohingya Muslims and provides some essential facts.

· What can be done to support the Rohingya Muslims from afar?

· Here's more on the cases brought against Myanmar for justice.

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi is defending Myanmar in court against accusations of genocide.

According to a case brought by the country of Gambia at the United Nations’ International Court of Justice, the Myanmar military in August 2017 carried out a systematic, targeted campaign of terror, rape and murder against its Muslim population.

UN investigators say as many as 10,000 Rohingya – a Muslim minority in this Buddhist-majority nation – were killed. Another 730,000 Rohingya fled the massacre for Bangladesh, joining 300,000 Rohingya who had previously fled oppression in Myanmar.

Suu Kyi said during hearings at the Hague on Dec. 11 that the charge of genocide is “misleading” because “cycles of intercommunal violence” in Myanmar date “back to the 1940s.” The Myanmar military explains its campaign as a counter-terrorism effort against a violent Rohingya extremist group.

Read the full article about genocide in Myanmar by Catesby Holmes at The Conversation.