Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected allegations of genocide against Myanmar in the UN's top court, despite admitting the army may have used excessive force against Rohingya Muslims.

In an address to the International Court of Justice Suu Kyi denied misleading and incomplete claims by The Gambia that a 2017 military operation had attempted to exterminate the Rohingya.

Nearly three-quarters of a million Rohingya fled to neighbouring Bangladesh after the Myanmar military launched a huge offensive that it said was in response to attacks by local militants.

While Director of humanitarian advocacy at Save the Children George Graham said Suu Kyi’s statement contradicted evidence on the ground and witness accounts.

He said her remarks “fly in the face of all the evidence gathered by the UN, and the testimony our own teams have heard from countless survivors.

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