On 27 November 2024, the ICC prosecutor announced his intention to seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s Prime Minister and Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC), Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. The charges relate to the Myanmar Armed Forces’ (Tatmadaw) military operations against the Islamist insurgents of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in 2016-2017, during which an act of genocide against the Rohingya (Bengali Muslims) was allegedly committed. The prosecutor’s statement had a wide resonance among the Myanmar opposition and was supported by the National Unity Government (NUG), which has been waging a “revolutionary war” against the SAC since…