<span style="color: #222222;">The United Nation's top court will today announce if it will allow a case accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya Muslims to go ahead. The court will also decide over imposing emergency measures to stop further violence. The ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) comes days after a Myanmar commission concluded that some soldiers likely committed war crimes against the minority group but that the military was not guilty of genocide.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">African nation Gambia brought the case against Myanmar after 740,000 Rohingyas fled over the border into Bangladesh, carrying accounts of widespread rape, arson and mass killings. The Gambia brought the case with the backing of the 57-nation Organisation for Islamic Cooperation. Canada and the Netherlands have since also lent their support. The ruling today is just the first step in a legal battle that is likely to take years at the ICJ.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''<br />''In The Hague in December last year, Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi argued that her country was capable of investigating any allegations of abuse and warned that the case could reignite the crisis. Myanmar has always maintained the crackdown by the armed forces, or Tatmadaw, was justified to root out Rohingya insurgents after a series of attacks left a dozen security personnel dead.</span><br />