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Rohingya Persecutions in Myanmar: Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide?

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dc.contributor.author Hossain, Md. Pizuar
dc.date.accessioned 2021-09-21T07:49:08Z
dc.date.available 2021-09-21T07:49:08Z
dc.date.issued 2020-12-13
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.ewubd.edu/xmlui/handle/123456789/3215
dc.description Working Paper is a routine publication of EWUCRT. This is a preliminary research report published after its review by at least two experts in the field. Thereafter, it is circulated to a wider audience of readers including students, faculty and specialists in the field for comments. EWUCRT earnestly requests comments from the readers of the report and share those with us electronically using e-mail id: ewucrt@ewubd.edu. en_US
dc.description.abstract On 25 August 2017, the Myanmar security forces launched widespread and systematic attacks against the Rohingya people with brutalities unbound. As a matter of fact, such persecution is termed either “ethnic cleansing or “crimes against humanity, or “genocide” by diverse personnel, scholars, organisations, and even representatives of many countries. Each term has its own significance and recognition in the contemporary international law. The term “ethnic cleansing” is an oblique expression that is generally used to avoid the liability of “genocide” or any other mass violations of human rights. In contrast, the 1948 Genocide Convention defines “genocide” denoting it as a punishable offence. These different scenarios generate an ambiguity in the relationships as well as differences between “ethnic cleansing” and “genocidal intent” because the International Court of Justice (ICJ) indicated in the Croatia v. Serbia [2015] case that even a mere campaign of ethnic cleansing may amount to a genocidal act considering its aftermath. This proposition fortified the author to find answer to a universal epidemic question as to whether the persecutions committed against the Rohingyas can be termed merely “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide”. This issue gives birth to certain interconnected questions such as, what is intimately the criminal nature of Rohingya persecution, and what is the consequence of defining the perpetrator’s criminality. This study has focused on the ample answers to these questions. On the basis of the core findings, it has also highlighted the legal inferences of the atrocities to prosecute the individual perpetrators of Myanmar, and to make Myanmar accountable as a State. In order to determine the criminal nature of the persecution, the author primarily relied on qualitative research approaches including focus group discussions. As per relevance, various reports, international instruments, and precedents are also consulted in this study. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher East West University en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries ;19
dc.subject Myanmar Rohingya people, ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity, genocide en_US
dc.title Rohingya Persecutions in Myanmar: Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide? en_US
dc.type Working Paper en_US


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