THE PRINCIPLE OF RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: THE CASE OF ROHINGYA IN MYANMAR
Keywords:
Responsibility to Protect, Ethnic minorities, GenocideAbstract
The issue of Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar is not only an ethnic but religious issue as well. The Rohingya are Myanmar’s Muslim minority who reside in the northern parts of the Rakhine region(historically known as Arakan), a geographically isolated area in western Myanmar, bordering Bangladesh. The ethno-religious clashes between Buddhist population and Rohingya Muslims draw the attention of the world to the relatively insignificant country- The Myanmar. The paper argues that the Rohingya is facing a serious threat of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, while the government of Myanmar has failed in its primary duty to protect them. Due to such failure, the responsibility to protect them falls on the international community to prevent the occurrence of mass atrocities under the principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). The objectives of this article are two-fold. First is to provide an understanding of the plight of the Rohingya and second is to analyse the application of R2P as a solution to the crisis.
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