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December 14, 2019

Myanmar's lawyer to critics on genocide case: Everyone has right to defence


 

William Schabas, a Canadian attorney defending Myanmar against genocide charges at the UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ), poses for a photo before an interview with Reuters in The Hague, Netherlands, Dec 12, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Eva Plevier)
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THE HAGUE: Canadian lawyer William Schabas, an international scholar on genocide, has been criticised by friend and foe for first researching crimes against the Muslim Rohingya of Myanmar, and now defending the state accused of perpetrating them.
Schabas helped research a report in 2010 on systematic attacks against the Rohingya, which concluded that they met the international threshold of crimes against humanity.



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