Hawzah News Agency - (Hague - Netherlands ) - Human rights campaigners worldwide have called for an international boycott of Myanmar as the country’s leader is set to attend hearings in a trial at The Hague for charges of genocide of Rohingya Muslims.

According to media reports on Monday, around 30 human rights groups and advocates from 10 countries have jointly launched the international “Boycott Myanmar Campaign” to exert political and economic pressure on the country.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague is scheduled to start three days of hearings regarding the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in a lawsuit filed by Gambia in November.

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday, will stand trial at the ICJ on Tuesday.

More than 730,000 Rohingya fled from Myanmar to refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh in 2017 after a brutal military-led crackdown.

The United Nations has said the campaign was executed with “genocidal intent” and included mass killings and rape.

During the hearings, the 16-member panel of UN judges at the ICJ will urge Myanmar’s leader to impose “provisional measures” to protect the Rohingya before the case can be heard in full.