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Preventing genocide in Myanmar: Court order tries to protect Rohingya Muslims where politics has failed

  • Written by Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, Tufts University
The Myanmar military's years-long campaign against the Rohingya Muslims left hundreds of villages a smoldering pile of debris. Warpait village, Rakhine State, Oct.14, 2016.Ye Aung Thu/AFP via Getty Images)

Myanmar has been ordered by the International Court of Justice to take “provisional measures” to protect the Rohingya, an ethnic...

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