Rohingya Symposium: Judicial Intervention and the Duty to Prevent Genocide in the Rohingya Genocide Case–The Role of Obligatio Erga Omnes and Nouvelle Protection Diplomatique
[John Heieck is the Deputy Managing Editor of Opinio Juris and an independent researcher and scholar of international criminal law.] Introduction The focus of this post is the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar) (hereinafter Rohingya Genocide case), and specifically, the importance of the ICJ’s Provisional Measures Order (PMO) of 23 January 2020. I examine the...