Public hearings began Monday in a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning Myanmar’s treatment of the ethnoreligious minority Rohingya community. In 2016, Myanmar’s military launched a genocide against the Rohingya in a campaign that continues to this day alongside attacks on numerous other ethnoreligious minority groups, such as the Christian-majority Chin people. This hearing is the ICJ’s first full genocide hearing in more than a decade and follows special attention to the crisis at the U.N. General Assembly in September 2025.