(WASHINGTON DC, 6 Mar. 2020) —The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations has conferred its Highest Award of Honor on The Gambia’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General Abubacarr Tambadou. The honor came at a dinner in recognition of his world-surprising, successful prosecution of Myanmar at the United Nations International Court of Justice last December for its ongoing genocide of the Rohingya.
At the same event, the Kansas-based Mercy Without Limits international relief organization pledged $20 million in medicine and medical supplies to The Gambia in appreciation for the small, impoverished nation’s singular humanitarian courage on behalf of the Rohingya Muslims.
“Your words rung out above all the nations of the earth to give voice to the powerless Rohingya,” said USCMO Secretary General Oussama Jammal. “In this, you exalted The Gambia as the boldest champion of human rights on earth — not by high talk — but by risky and gallant example.”
Tambadou’s appearance before the High Court, and his stunning win, received wall-to-wall international coverage and acclaim because his personal opponent in the litigation was the once globally hailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader as State Counselor, turned defender of her army’s Rohingya genocide and ethnic cleansing. Tambadou’s crushing presentation completed Suu Kyi’s humiliation in the eyes of the world and sealed her fall from grace. Numerous human rights groups, municipal councils, and universities have now stripped Suu Kyi of her previous peace, freedom, and rights awards.
Tambadou praised the American Muslim community for its unparalleled “hospitality and support,” and vowed to “continue to defend those who face violence and genocide, irrespective of their religious or ethnic background.”
This was not Tambadou’s first successful prosecution of genocide at The Hague. From 2008 to 2011, he made a historic case against ringleaders of the 1994 Rwanda genocide against the Tutsis at the United Nations’ Rwanda Tribunal.
Of the 149 countries that have signed the international treaty of the Genocide Convention, only The Gambia, under the leadership of President Adama Barrow, and in the capable legal hands of Tambadou, had the courage and moral bearing to bring the High Court case against Myanmar for the helpless Rohingya. Nations feared angering China or showed no sympathy for the cold-blooded savagery endured disproportionately by Rohingya women, children, and the elderly.
“This was a courageous pursuit of justice, indeed,” said Jammal. “It evokes the best ideals of Islam and the character of the Prophet, on him be peace.”
