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While it is easy to be cynical about what the precedent-setting ICJ ruling will actually accomplish in practice, the ICJ court order reinforces the universality of human rights and the rule of law. International justice is a long game - and one that is just getting started in Myanmar.

The restrictions cover citizens of Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. Five of six have large Muslim populations.

A unanimous ruling by a panel of 17 judges, the court said Myanmar must now take all steps within its power to prevent serious harm to Rohingya.

The protesters are concerned migrants will move to the border region and dilute the culture and political sway of indigenous tribal people.

More than 700,000 Rohingya fled to neighboring Bangladesh to escape what has been described as an ethnic cleansing campaign.

Some 700,000 minority Rohingya fled to Bangladesh to escape what has been called an ethnic cleansing campaign involving mass rapes and killings.

"The chamber hereby authorises the commencement of an investigation into the situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar."

Some 600,000 Rohingya are living in "deplorable" conditions, the U.N. said.

Perhaps most desperate of all are the 128,000 Rohingya, more than half of them children, who have been confined since 2012 in the de facto detention camps. The camps are [...] under the control of Camp Management Committees that regulate every aspect of their lives, and dependent on aid handouts.

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