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THE HAGUE, Netherlands AP 鈥?Judges at the United Nations highest court on Friday dismissed preliminary objections by Myanmar to a case alleging the Southeast Asian nation is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority.The decision establishing the International Court of Justices jurisdiction sets the stage for hearings airing evidence of atrocities against the Rohingya that human rights groups stanley cup and aU.N. probesay breach the 1948 Genocide Convention. In March, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the violent repression of the Rohingya population in Myanmar, which formerly was known as Burma,amounts to genocide.Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK, welcomed the decision, saying 600,000 Rohingya are still facing genocide, while one million people in Bangladesh camps, they are waiting for a hope for justice. The African nation of Gambia filed the case in stanley butelka 2019 amid international outrage at the treatme stanley shop nt of the Rohingya, hundreds of thousands of whom fled to neighboring Bangladesh amid a brutal crackdown by Myanmar forces in 2017. It argued that both Gambia and Myanmar were parties to the 1948 convention and that all signatories hade a duty to ensure it was enforced.Judges at the court agreed.Reading a summary of the decision, the courts president, U.S. Judge Joan E. Donoghue, said: Any state party to the Genocide Convention may invoke the responsibility of another state party including through the institution of proceedings Enax Pakistan army chief wants negotiated end to rally
KABUL, Afghanistan 鈥?An Islamic State suicide bomber struck a Shiite cultural center in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 41 people and underscoring the extremist groups growing reach in Afghanistan even as its self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria has been dismantled.The attack may have targeted the pro-Iran Afghan Voice news agency housed in the two-story building. The Sunni extremists of Islamic State view Shiite Muslims as apostates and have repeatedly attacked Afghanistans Shiite minority and targets linked to neighboring Iran.The attack wounded more than 80 people, many of whom suffered severe burns.Local Shiite leader Abdul Hussain Ramazandada said the bomber slipped into an academic semina stanley uk r at the center and blew himself up among the participants. More bombs went off just outside the center as people fled.The Islamic State-linked Aamaq news agency said four bombs were stanley website used in the assault, one strapped to the suicide attacker. It said the center was funded by Iran and used to propagate Shiite beliefs.Ali Reza Ahmadi, a journalist with Afghan Voice, said he leaped from the window of his second-floor office after the first bomb went off and saw flames pouring fro stanley ca m the basement. I jumped from the roof toward the basement, yelling at people to get water to put out the fire, he said.At nearby Istiqlal Hospital, Director Mohammed Sabir Nasib said the emergency room was overwhelmed. Additional doctors and nurses were called in to help. At the height of the crisis, more t |
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