In a unanimous 17-0 decision on Thursday, the International Court of Justice rejected Myanmar's argument that the deaths of the Rohingya were part of an "armed military conflict."

Aung San Suu Kyi denied that her government committed genocide against the Muslim minority group at the International Court of Justice in the Hague on Wednesday.

Systemic violence by the Myanmar government forced more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee.

Bangladesh is abandoning plans to send 700,000 Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, citing the group's unwillingness to go back to a country where many of their people were killed.

Canada has voted to call it a Rohingya genocide and to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of her honourary citizenship, but advocates urge that there's more to do.

MPs have unanimously endorsed a Bloc Quebecois motion to revoke the honorary Canadian citizenship of Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

In a rare show of unanimity, MPs on Thursday agreed to call a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in Myanmar an act of genocide.

"It's psychologically very tough for Canadian Rohingya refugees to live here in peace when their families are suffering and going through horror and trauma in refugee camps."

Suu Kyi is being pilloried by diplomats and human rights activists after a judge in Myanmar sentenced two Reuters journalists to jail for seven years. 

Myanmar's army has published a book on the Rohingya that misrepresents archival photos taken in other countries.