Top U.N. court to rule on Myanmar’s Rohingya genocide case

A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 18 | REUTERS

Nov 5, 2026

The Hague – The top United Nations court on Nov. 19 will deliver a landmark ruling on whether Myanmar’s crackdown against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority constituted a genocide, officials said on Tuesday.

Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have for seven years been weighing accusations by The Gambia that Myanmar’s brutal repression of the Rohingya breached the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention.

While the ICJ has no means of enforcing its decisions, a ruling that Myanmar committed genocide would heap more international pressure on its leader Min Aung Hlaing.

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