UN Secretary-General’s Confrontation with the Genocide of Rohingya’s Muslims (2016-2017)

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Article 6, Volume 10, Issue 1 - Serial Number 19, December 2021, Pages 143-175   

Document Type: Original Article

DOI: 10.22067/irlip.2021.21331.0

Authors

Maryam Zarekhanmohammadi^{* 1}; Farideh Mohammad Alipour²

¹Ph.D Student of International Relations, Shahid Beheshti University

²Assistant professor, of International Relations, Kharazmi University

Abstract

Despite the over seven decades of Myanmar's independence, United Nations concerns and at the head of that Secretary-General have remained about the Rohingya Muslim minority. Deprivation of citizenship and lack of recognition as an ethnic-religious have always provided the context to apply discriminatory behavior based on violence, crime and human rights violations against this minority. Along with media reflection about this tragedy in the world and expectation of the United Nations to address this issue, UN Secretary-General has been constantly monitoring and reviewing the situation of the Rohingya people through appointing two special advisers consist of The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and The Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect. In this study, with the aim of reviewing the actions and measures had been taken against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and UN Secretary-General's reaction to it, the main question is that, what role has the UN Secretary-General played in the violent actions of the Myanmar government against the Rohingya minority during 2016 and 2017? In response, with using descriptive and analytical approach it is assumed that the United Nations Secretary-General with awareness of the unfair and inhuman conditions of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar over the past decades, has played a role in bringing global attention to the situation of Muslim Myanmar by adopting new approaches and new tools at the United Nations. The results of the research illustrate that, despite the efforts of the Secretary-General at the head of the UN Secretariat criminal acts against them have continued in 2016 and 2017.

Keywords

Genocide; UN Secretary-General; Ethnic Minorities; Myanmar; Rohingya

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