Stateless People, Organisation & Management of Genocide & Humanitarian Crisis: Rohingya & Rights

Abstract

Focusing on the Rohingya community, this paper interrogates what political, economic, social, and cultural conditions enable state and civil society actors, including the United Nations, to reconfigure the lives of a community, and how interlocked practices of these institutions legitimise genocide – institutionalised killings, dispossession, and death. I argue how a militarisation process and militarism have created a particular state structure that interacts with civil society actors and ruling class factions, produces ethno- nationalism and ethno-religionalism, and simultaneously normalises and legitimises genocide, regardless of the form of political regime – national-populist, military, transition to democracy or democratic state. The article opens up an analytical space by reflecting on regimes and modalities of human rights – investigating what the way rights are facilitated – or not – tells us about the actor and thereby wherein the global management of humanitarian crisis is grounded. Key words: Internally displaced people, stateless people, refugee, violence, militarism, and militarisation