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Voices of the Rohingya people : a case of genocide, ethnocide and 'subhuman' life
This book offers a comprehensive depiction of the causes and consequences of the Rohingya crisis, based on detailed ethnographic narratives provided by hundreds of Rohingya people who crossed the border following the Clearance Operation in 2017. The author critically engages with the identity politics on both sides of the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, and the categorisation of the Rohingya as the people of no-mans land amidst the socio-political and ethno-nationalist dynamics of colonial and postcolonial transition in the region. He then interrogates the role of the international community and aid industry, before providing in-depth policy recommendations based on his own experience working with Rohingya refugees. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, policymakers and NGOs in the fields of migration studies, anthropology, political science and international relations.
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Citizenship advocacy in Myanmar - what is the way forward after the coup?
The February 2021 military coup d'etat against Myanmar's National League for Democracy ('NLD') government radically changed the political landscape for citizenship and human rights advocates. The fundamental shift in the roles of the military, the democratic opposition and Ethnic Resistance Organisations ('EROs') requires that human rights actors adapt to the current situation and strategise on advocacy in a collaborative manner. The development and promotion of alternative legislation to eventually replace the 1982 'Citizenship Law' as part of a new federal constitutional model should be a primary objective.
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The Limits of Common Humanity
The Limits of Common Humanity provides an interdisciplinary response to theorise the role of \"humanity\" as a motivational concept. Jarvis examines the creation and mission of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) concept, highlighting the challenges that have restricted its application in practice.
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International Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect
I examine the roots of \"Responsibility to Protect\" in international ethics. International responsibility to protect is as a whole at odds with international law, but deeply familiar to Liberal international ethics. But, controversially, I argue that even the Realist and Marxist traditions include commitments to human respect that make humanitarian concerns far from foreign. I then explore how it evolved out of the crisis in Kosovo and the question of its policy significance today in cases in which it has been invoked, ranging from Myanmar to Kenya and Guinea — sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly, successfully and not. My conclusion is that R2P has contributed to the increasing pluralism, contested and contestable, of the normative architecture of world politics, and thus has produced confusion. But, this confusion may reduce as RtoP norms are accumulated in customary law and reshape the discourse of international ethics. In any case, where the alternative to pluralism is clarity that either abandons vulnerable populations or imposes unrealistic expectations of enforced human rights, confusion is a step forward, a resource for responsible policy and the best we are likely to get if we continue to care about both vulnerable populations and national sovereignty.
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Preventing mass atrocities against The stateless Rohingya in Myanmar: a call for solutions
This article constitutes a call for solutions to the prolonged and worsening plight of the Rohingya, a largely stateless, Muslim minority based in western Myanmar. Over the past year, a number of experts have invoked the possibility of genocide against this group, citing a dangerous combination of ethnic and religious tensions, discriminatory deprivation of basic rights, restricted access to food and medicine, hate speech, and large numbers fleeing the country. Yet up to now, domestic and international responses to the Rohingya crisis have been weak, with serious consequences for this community, the prospects of democratic transition and rule of law in Myanmar, and the integrity of international law. This article highlights the basis for why the possibility of genocide has been raised and argues that the international community has legal obligations to act. These considerations could contribute to sharpening focus on the urgent need for regionally coordinated solutions, based on enforceable principles of nondiscrimination and inclusion, specifically guarantees of citizenship rights and protection. These are critical elements of democratic development in divided societies like Myanmar.
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Frontline. Myanmar's killing fields
Secret footage going back years shows the effort to kill and expel Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. With accounts from victims and witnesses, the film examines evidence that security forces committed crimes against humanity.
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From Sovereignty to Responsibility: An Emerging International Norm and Its Call to Action in Burma
\"“[[O]]ur struggle for democracy is a struggle for our everyday life.\"” This, in the words of long-detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, describes the isolated pariah state of Burma. Under brutal military rule since 1962, Burma is still desperately trying to change its deplorable circumstances through the leadership of Suu Kyi, but continues to fail due to the regime-written \"“new\"” constitution that guarantees the regime's continued leading role in the state apparatus. Illegitimate elections and continued repression of the democratic opposition allow for the regime's violations of basic human rights to continue. Rights violations that include displacement, forced labor, rape, and murder-—making it one of the world's most oppressive regimes. Following the devastation of Cyclone Nargis in 2008, the regime obstructed the delivery of any outside aid to its people, exacerbating the country's problems and causing the death of thousands from starvation and lack of medical attention. This led many in the international community to invoke an emerging international norm that recasts sovereignty as a responsibility, rather than a privilege, a doctrine entitled the \"“Responsibility to Protect.\"” This Note argues that Burma represents the ideal case study for application of the doctrine, and that while the regime's appalling actions taken after Cyclone Nargis were a missed opportunity for such application, the atrocities that persist inside the country continue to help make a tangible case.
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