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Today, Explained

From Nobel Peace Prize to denying genocide

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The International Court of Justice is ordering Myanmar to protect the Rohingya from genocide, but no one knows if Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi will heed the call. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On Thursday, the United Nations International Court of Justice issued a big, historic decision.

0:10.3

Breaking news now out of the hake where there's been a major development in the case of

0:21.7

Rohingya Muslims in the clays.

0:23.0

It was a unanimous ruling.

0:24.8

Myanmar must take all measures within its power to protect Rohingya Muslims against violence

0:31.4

and preserve any evidence of genocide.

0:34.8

Today, the justice is partially subbed.

0:38.1

This is a great day for us.

0:40.0

We will celebrate.

0:41.2

It was a rare win for the Rangapipal.

0:43.9

And the craziest thing about it is that it's all thanks to a tiny African nation.

0:49.5

Gambia made this happen.

0:51.6

So all the Gambia asks is that you tell Myanmar to stop these senseless killings,

1:00.4

to stop these acts of barbarity and brutality that have shocked and continue to shock our collective

1:09.0

conscience.

1:11.4

On today's show, we're going to explain how and whether any of this will change anything

1:16.4

for the Rohingya.

1:18.1

I asked David Shefford.

1:19.7

I'm a law professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago,

1:24.7

and I'm the former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes issues during the Clinton

1:28.9

Administration in the 1990s.

1:30.9

Could you help us sort of set the stage of, I guess, the Rohingya experience in Myanmar?

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