The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will next month hear a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the country’s Rohingya minority, the court said on Friday.

The Gambia, a predominantly Muslim country, filed the case at the ICJ with the support of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in 2019, accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya.

The case pertains to the Myanmar military’s brutal “clearance operation” in August 2017. Justified as a response to scattered attacks by Rohingya militants, soldiers and Rakhine vigilantes torched villages, shot civilians, and drove an estimated 750,000 desperate people over the border into Bangladesh, where most remain in large refugee camps. United Nations investigators later said that the offensives showed “genocidal intent.”

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