What Makes Gambia a Good Champion Of The Cause Of The Rohingyas

Reed Brody is counsel with Human Rights Watch and a member of the International Commission of Jurists. He is known to Gambians for his work with the victims of ex-president Yahya Jammeh and his role in the campaign to bring to justice in Senegal the former dictator of Chad Hissène Habré. TFN asked Brody about The Gambia’s case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice which held preliminary hearings on 10-12 December. Q. What do you make of The Gambia’s decision to bring this case? A. When we heard that The Gambia was actually going to do this, cheers went up from activists around the…

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