The Rohingya jurisdiction decision: a step forward for stopping forced deportations

Colvin, Victoria; Orchard, Phil

doi:10.1080/10357718.2018.1548563

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“…Myanmar is not party to the Rome Statute, which created the court, and any attempt to force the ICC to take a case through the UN Security Council would almost certainly be blocked by China, and probably by Russia as well. Nevertheless, since Bangladesh is party to the Rome Statute, and the Rohingya fled across the border, the ICC ruled in 2018 that it had jurisdiction over the case (Colvin and Orchard 2019). As a result, in November 2019, the ICC approved a full investigation into the allegations of 'systematic acts of violence', deportation as a crime against humanity, and persecution on the grounds of ethnicity or religion against the Rohingya (AFP 2019).…”

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The Rohingya crisis and questions of accountability

Simpson

Farrelly

2020

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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There is no obvious end to the ongoing tragedy that faces the Muslim Rohingya communities of western Myanmar. Yet, with two important international legal cases underway at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court there are now important opportunities to maintain pressure on Myanmar's government. Myanmar's current governmenta fusion of militarist, democratic, ethno-nationalist and conservative interests has consistently sought to downplay the seriousness of the situation. This attitude, and the fraught, but politically effective, nexus between Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) and the military, has done much to encourage a culture of impunity among military and civilian decision-makers. Nevertheless, with crucial national elections scheduled for November 2020, and an economy battered by the global COVID-19 shutdown, Myanmar faces a confluence of grave challenges. Under these conditions, key decision-makers in Naypyitaw may hope that international scrutiny of violence against the Rohingya will fade. Given these court actions, however, this is unlikely. Whatever sympathy we may have for Aung San Suu Kyi's predicament, she will not recover her reputation. And she will forever face hard questions about her inability to prevent, and, more importantly, refusal to condemn, ethnic cleansing.

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The Rohingya crisis and questions of accountability

Simpson

Farrelly

2020

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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Myanmar

O’Brien¹

2022

International Conflict and Security Law

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“There We Are Nothing, Here We Are Nothing!”—The Enduring Effects of the Rohingya Genocide

O’Brien

Hoffstaedter

2020

Social Sciences

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Debates continue as to whether crimes committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar amount to genocide. This article will address this question, framed in the broad context of the Rohingya victimisation in Myanmar, but also the narrow context of the Rohingya refugee lived experience in Malaysia. The authors contend that the Rohingya are victims of genocide, and this is in part evidenced by the destruction of the Rohingya culture, including through assimilation (and therefore loss of group identity) in refugee destination countries, such as Malaysia. This analysis is based on the consideration of theories of genocide process and definition, international law, and qualitative data collected during extensive anthropological fieldwork by one of the authors with urban refugees in peninsular Malaysia.

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The Rohingya jurisdiction decision: a step forward for stopping forced deportations

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The Rohingya crisis and questions of accountability

The Rohingya crisis and questions of accountability

Myanmar

“There We Are Nothing, Here We Are Nothing!”—The Enduring Effects of the Rohingya Genocide

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