Myanmar leader told court in The Hague that the mass displacement of Rohingya was the result of an armed conflict.
"The world will judge their claim of no genocide with evidence," Mohammed Mohibullah, chairman of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, told the Associated Press news agency.
"A thief never admits he is a thief, but justice can be delivered through evidence. The world has obtained evidence from us," he said at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district.