PATHEIN, MYANMAR – Dozens of Rohingya Muslims appeared in a Myanmar court on Wednesday to face charges of traveling illegally after they were arrested while fleeing apartheid-like conditions in the country’s Rakhine state.
The group of 93, including 23 children, were brought to court on the same day that Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, appeared before the top U.N. tribunal in The Hague to defend the country against accusations of genocide in Rakhine.
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