Feasibility of Implementing of R2P in Myanmar

Abstract

Killing men, shooting them, slaughtering children, raping women, burning and looting houses these are only some human rights crimes that occur against Muslims in but up to now, none of international community has made a substantial contribution. In 2001, International Law Commission realized that UN charter did not have much success in overcoming human rights violations, so a new concept for human law intervention called Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was invented. The central subject was the idea that sovereign states have a responsibility to protect their own citizens from avoidable catastrophe- from mass murder and rape, from starvation- but, when they are unwilling or unable to do so, that responsibility must be borne by broader community of states. Therefore, in its simplest and most widely accepted formulation, Responsibility to Protect (R2P) represents responsibility of governments and international community to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. According to a senior U.N. official, Burmese authorities are carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Muslim minority in Myanmar which is one of subjects covered by R2P. The purpose of writing article is explaining rules in International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, R2P, answering question of how international community can intervene in reducing disaster occurring in Myanmar, and using Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in overcoming tragedy of killing of Muslims in Myanmar.