Abstract
Subject Western response to Rohingya crisis. Significance On August 27, the UN Human Rights Council released a report on the Rohingya crisis and other ethnic conflicts in Myanmar. The report finds that Myanmar’s military had "genocidal intent" towards Rohingya Muslims, of whom some 700,000 have fled violence in Rakhine State since August 2017. The US State Department is due to release its own report on the Rohingya situation, based on interviews conducted in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Labelling the Myanmar military’s actions as genocidal would entail legal obligations in line with the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Impacts Japan, worried about increased Chinese influence in the region, will not support Western sanctions on the Myanmar military. Further Western sanctions on Myanmar would prompt Beijing to expand its aid to Naypyidaw accordingly. Myanmar will refuse any cooperation with the International Criminal Court.
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