Editing Genocide Convention (section)

===Myanmar===
{{main|Rohingya genocide case}}
[[Myanmar]] has been accused of [[Rohingya genocide|genocide against its Rohingya community]] in Rakhine State after around 800,000 Rohingya fled at gunpoint to neighbouring Bangladesh in 2016 and 2017, while their home villages were systematically burned. The International Court of Justice issued its first circular in 2018, asking Myanmar to protect its Rohingya from genocide.<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 January 2020 |title=Top UN court orders Myanmar to protect Rohingya from genocide |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/01/1055841|access-date=20 January 2021 |website=UN News |language=en |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=27 January 2020 |title=Interview: Landmark World Court Order Protects Rohingya from Genocide |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/01/27/interview-landmark-world-court-order-protects-rohingya-genocide |access-date=20 January 2021 |website=[[Human Rights Watch]] |language=en |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=van den Berg |first=Stephanie |last2=Paul |first2=Ruma |date=23 January 2020 |title=World Court orders Myanmar to protect Rohingya from acts of genocide |language=en |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-world-court-idUSKBN1ZM00H |access-date=20 January 2021 |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref> Myanmar's civilian government was [[2021 Myanmar coup d'état|overthrown by the military]] on 1 February 2021; since the military is widely seen as the main culprit of the genocide, the coup presents a further challenge to the ICJ.