Myanmar's shadow government (anti-junta national unity government) has withdrawn its objections to a trial at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over allegations of Myanmar's military brutality and genocide against Rohingya in Rakhine. News Reuters.

Myanmar's anti-junta shadow government issued a statement on Tuesday marking the one-year anniversary of the military coup. The statement said the objection was withdrawn from the trial. After the military coup, the shadow government was formed by Myanmar's ousted politicians, lawmakers and anti-junta activists.

The shadow government has said that the atrocities committed by the army against the Rohingya need to be acknowledged by the ISIS. This will pave the way for an end to the heinous crimes that the junta government is now committing.

The African nation of Gambia filed a lawsuit against Myanmar in the ICJ in November 2019, alleging genocide against the Rohingya in Rakhine. The Supreme Court of the United Nations is located in The Hague, Netherlands.

The case alleges that in 2016, the Myanmar army carried out massacres of Rohingya in Rakhine. Their houses were set on fire. To save their lives, millions of Rohingya fled Rakhine, crossed the border and took refuge in Bangladesh.

UN investigators say Rohingyas have been targeted for genocide.

Gambia submitted a 500-page memorandum to the ICJ on behalf of the case. At the same time, the country added an additional 5,000 pages of supplementary documents in support of the allegations. These memoranda and documents show how the then Myanmar government was responsible for the genocide against the Rohingya.

Suu Kyi attended the hearing in The Hague in December 2019 in the wake of the allegations. He was the State Counselor of Myanmar at that time.

At the hearing, he formally denied the allegations in court on behalf of the government. He objected to the ICJ's jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute the allegations.

But Suu Kyi has been detained by Myanmar's junta government since last year's military coup. Suu Kyi is on trial in several cases. After the coup, the shadow government was formed in Myanmar to take forward the process of restoring democracy. Suu Kyi herself is in this government.

This anti-junta government is trying to gain international recognition. So this government has taken a very flexible position on the Rohingya issue. As part of this, Suu Kyi has raised objections to the trial.

However, the ICJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Myanmar's shadow government. He was not immediately available for comment.

Myanmar in a deadly civil war

Myanmar has the experience of being under military rule for years. However, a lot of blood has been shed in the country during the last one year of junta rule. Since the bloodless military coup on February 1, 2021, anti-junta protests, especially youth protests, have pushed Myanmar to the brink of civil war. Many have taken up arms against the junta government.

More than 1,500 civilians have been killed in Myanmar's conflict over the past year, AFP news agency quoted a human rights group as saying. Most of them are anti-animal. They lost their lives in the firing of the security forces. In one year, more than 11,000 civilians were arrested in the country. According to the junta, 17 army and police personnel were killed in Myanmar between February and October last year.

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in an interview with the BBC that the current situation in Myanmar was turning into a civil war. The UN Security Council must take action to restore peace and restore democracy in the conflict-torn country. He warned that the conflict in Myanmar was becoming a threat to regional security.

"If we do not take swift action against the junta, the situation in the country could quickly turn into that of Syria," Michelle Bachelet warned.

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