ICJ Judge Navi Pillay’s Nobel Prize Exposes Genocide Court’s Limits in Myanmar’s Colonial-Legal Impasse

The ICJ’s genocide case against Myanmar ignores the *Rohingya’s* pre-colonial *Mro* legal traditions, where disputes were resolved through village councils (*thang*) and oral histories of atrocities. These systems, suppressed under British rule, could provide a framework for truth-telling that the ICJ’s state-centric process cannot. For instance, the *Kachin Independence Organization* has documented how colonial-era land grabs (later institutionalized by the ICJ’s sovereign-state framework) are directly tied to today’s ethnic cleansing—a connection the court’s legalism obscures.