Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared the genocide case against it at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, to be "flawed and unfounded." The case, brought by The Gambia in 2019, accuses Myanmar's military government of genocide against its Rohingya minority, following a 2017 offensive that displaced approximately 750,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh. Myanmar's military rulers, who seized power in 2021, assert they are cooperating with the ICJ in good faith, despite rejecting previous UN findings of genocidal acts and ethnic cleansing, claiming their actions were a counterterrorism campaign. The trial, which began on Monday and will last three weeks, is the ICJ's first full genocide case in over a decade, with Myanmar's defense set to begin on Friday.