{"id":75935,"date":"2026-01-12T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/12\/myanmar-military-rohingya-genocide-case-un-court"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:38:09","slug":"big-step-forward-myanmar-military-faces-rohingya-genocide-case-at-un-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75935","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big step forward\u2019: Myanmar military faces Rohingya genocide case at UN court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors of violence hope proceedings will bring justice a step closer and set a precedent for future genocide allegations<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, I feel like our voices are being heard, and like something is going to happen that is positive for the community,\u201d says Monaira*. She was forced to flee her home in Myanmar in 2017, when the military launched so-called clearance operations across Rohingya villages.<\/p>\n<p>During the violence, her brother was taken by military soldiers, shot dead, and his home set on fire. \u201cChildren were thrown into the fire in front of my eyes,\u201d says Monaira, who was raped by military personnel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/12\/myanmar-military-rohingya-genocide-case-un-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors of violence hope proceedings will bring justice a step closer and set a precedent for future genocide allegations\u201cFinally, I feel like our voices are being heard, and like something is going to happen that is positive for the community,\u201d says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,327,53,908,86,82,494,61,907,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-bangladesh","category-human-rights","category-international-court-of-justice","category-law","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-the-gambia","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75935\/revisions\/75936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}