Trial and tribulation: Suu Kyi standing before the ICJ in the Peace Palace of The Hague, at the start of a three-day hearing on Rohingya genocide case. — AFP
The Hague: Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi faced calls for Myanmar to “stop the genocide” of Rohingya Muslims as she personally led her country’s defence at the UN’s top court on Tuesday.
Suu Kyi, whose silence about the plight of the Rohingya has tarnished her reputation as a rights icon, sat through graphic accounts of murder and rape in the wood-panelled courtroom in The Hague.
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