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The Situation in the People's Republic of Bangladesh/Republic of the Union of Myanmar Decision to Authorize Investigation (I.C.C.) and the Gambia V. Myanmar Order for Provisional Measures (I.C.J.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2020

Alessandra Spadaro*
Affiliation:
Alessandra Spadaro is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

Extract

For the first time, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) are dealing concurrently with the same set of events, which concern the violence to which those in the group that self-identifies as the Rohingya have been subjected in Myanmar, and that has prompted their mass exodus to Bangladesh. Before both courts, proceedings are at a preliminary stage.

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Copyright
Copyright © 2020 by The American Society of International Law

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ENDNOTES

1 Situation in the People's Republic of Bangladesh/Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Request for authorisation of an investigation pursuant to article 15, ICC-01/19, July 4, 2019, https://www.icc-cpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2019_03510.PDF.

2 Situation in the People's Republic of Bangladesh/Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Decision Pursuant to Article 15 of the Rome Statute on the Authorisation of an Investigation into the Situation in the People's Republic of Bangladesh/Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Pre-Trial Chamber III, ICC-01/19, Nov. 14, 2019, https://www.icc-cpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2019_06955.PDF [hereinafter Decision].

3 Application Instituting Proceedings and Request for Provisional Measures (The Gambia v. Myanmar) Nov. 11, 2019, https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/178/178-20191111-APP-01-00-EN.pdf.

4 Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar), Order on the Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures, Jan. 23, 2020, https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/178/178-20200123-ORD-01-00-EN.pdf [hereinafter Provisional Measures Order].

5 Decision on the Prosecution's Request for a Ruling on Jurisdiction under Article 19(3) of the Statute, ICC-RoC46(3)-01/18, Sept. 6, 2018, ¶¶ 50–73.

6 Decision, supra note 2, ¶¶ 42–62.

7 Id. ¶ 110.

8 Id. ¶¶ 63–93.

9 Id. ¶ 124.

10 Id. ¶¶ 131, 133.

11 Id. ¶ 111.

12 Provisional Measures Order, supra note 4, ¶¶ 26–31.

13 Id. ¶¶ 32–36.

14 Id. ¶ 37.

15 Id. ¶ 41.

16 Reservations to the Convention on Genocide Advisory Opinion, 1951 I.C.J. Rep. 15, 23 (May 28), https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/12/012-19510528-ADV-01-00-EN.pdf.

17 Questions relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal) Judgment, 2012 I.C.J. Rep. 422, ¶ 68 (July 20), https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/144/144-20120720-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf.

18 Provisional Measures Order, supra note 4, Separate Opinion of Vice-President Xue ¶¶ 4–8, at https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/178/178-20200123-ORD-01-01-EN.pdf.

19 Id. ¶ 46.

20 Id. ¶ 47.

21 Id. ¶ 56.

22 Id. Declaration of Judge Ad Hoc Kress, ¶¶ 4–5, https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/178/178-20200123-ORD-01-03-EN.pdf.

23 Id. Separate Opinion of Judge Cançado Trinidade, ¶¶ 75–80, https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/178/178-20200123-ORD-01-02-EN.pdf.

24 Provisional Measures Order, supra note 4, ¶ 86.

25 La Grand (Germany v. United States of America) Judgment, 2001 I.C.J. Rep. 466, ¶ 109 (June 27), https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/104/104-20010627-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf.

26 Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro) Judgment, 2007 I.C.J. Rep. 43, ¶¶ 451–458 (Feb. 26), https://www.icj-cij.org/files/case-related/91/091-20070226-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf.