YK:n Kansainvälinen tuomioistuin antoi väliaikaismääräyksiä rohingya-väestön suojaamiseksi vainolta Myanmarissa

Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar)

The Court indicates provisional measures in order to preserve certain rights claimed by The Gambia for the protection of the Rohingya in Myanmar

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, today delivered its Order on the Request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by the Republic of The Gambia in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar).

History of the proceedings

On 11 November 2019, the Republic of The Gambia (“The Gambia”) filed in the Registry of the Court an Application instituting proceedings against the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (“Myanmar”) concerning alleged violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention” or “Convention”). In its Application, The Gambia argues in particular that Myanmar has committed and continues to commit genocidal acts against members of the Rohingya group, which it describes as a “distinct ethnic, racial and religious group that resides primarily in Myanmar’s Rakhine State”. The Application contained a Request for the indication of provisional measures, seeking to preserve, pending the Court’s final decision in the case, the rights of the Rohingya group in Myanmar, of its members and of The Gambia under the Genocide Convention.

Conditions for the indication of provisional measures

It should be recalled that the Court may indicate provisional measures only if the provisions relied on by the Applicant appear, prima facie, to afford a basis on which its jurisdiction could be founded. The Court must also satisfy itself that the rights whose protection is sought are at least plausible and that there is a link between those rights and the measures requested. Further, the power of the Court to indicate provisional measures will be exercised only if there is a real and imminent risk that irreparable prejudice will be caused to the rights in dispute before the Court gives its final decision.

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The Court indicates the following provisional measures:

• “(1) Unanimously,
  The Republic of the Union of Myanmar shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to the members of the Rohingya group in its territory, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular:
  (a) killing members of the group;
  (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group;
  (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and
  (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
• (2) Unanimously,
  The Republic of the Union of Myanmar shall, in relation to the members of the Rohingya group in its territory, ensure that its military, as well as any irregular armed units which may be directed or supported by it and any organizations and persons which may be subject to its control, direction or influence, do not commit any acts described in point (1) above, or of conspiracy to commit genocide, of direct and public incitement to commit genocide, of attempt to commit genocide, or of complicity in genocide;
• (3) Unanimously,
  The Republic of the Union of Myanmar shall take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide;
• (4) Unanimously,
  The Republic of the Union of Myanmar shall submit a report to the Court on all measures taken to give effect to this Order within four months, as from the date of this Order, and thereafter every six months, until a final decision on the case is rendered by the Court.

https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/178/178-20200123-PRE-01-00-EN.pdf