Myanmar will submit its first compliance report to the ICJ on a previous order to protect its Rohingya minority in the country.

The country says it will submit a report outlining its claims of compliance with an order from the International Court of Justice to protect members of its Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority. It should be out by today.

The Netherlands-based court in January issued an order for Myanmar to implement provisional measures for the protection of the Rohingya.

The court agreed last year to consider a case alleging that Myanmar committed genocide against the group, an accusation vigorously denied by the government.

Myanmar’s military in August 2017 launched what it called a clearance campaign in Rakhine state in response to an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group.

The campaign forced about 740,000 Rohingya to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh and led to accusations that security forces committed mass rapes and killings and burned thousands of homes.

Chan Aye, director general of the International Organisations and economic Department of Myanmar’s Foreign Ministry, said the government was working on the report, but would not discuss its contents before submitting it.

Brig-Gen Zaw Min Tun, a spokesperson for Myanmar’s military, said it has complied with government orders by providing “complete and necessary information” for the report.

There is no obligation to make the report public.

The court order requires Myanmar to “take all measures” to protect the Rohingya from genocide, to safeguard evidence relating to allegations of genocide and to prevent “public incitement” to commit genocide.

The court has no enforcement mechanism to ensure compliance, and similar orders in high-profile cases in the past involving Serbia and Uganda were ignored without consequence. The most significant measure taken by Myanmar’s government since the court order appears to have been an April 8 presidential directive that all “military or other security forces, or civil services and local people under its control or direction do not commit (genocidal) acts.”

Critics, however, note that Myanmar’s military has a record of impunity regarding alleged offences conducted by its personnel.

The African nation of Gambia filed the legal action at the court last November, alleging on behalf of the 57-country Organisation of Islamic Cooperation that genocide occurred and continues.