Responsibility to Protect Vis-à-Vis Humanitarian Crisis: With Special Reference to Rohingyas of Myanmar

Ethnic Rohingya, a minority, have confronted many years of suppression, discrimination, injustice and brutality in Myanmar, a South-East Asian State. They have been denied citizenship of Myanmar due to a discrimination embodied in Citizenship Law rendering them one of the largest stateless populations all over the world. The extermination of Rohingyas in 2012 and 2016 has been considered to be the utmost fatal in more than 20 years. Moreover, even worse brutal and systematic attacks of 2017 manifested the true human rights conditions of Rohingyas in Myanmar. Due to massacre break out in Rakhine state of Myanmar in end August, 2017 many Rohingya men, women and children escaped the country, in what has evolve into the world’s rapidly-growing refugee crisis. Therefore, it becomes imperative to discuss the contemporary principle of Responsibility to Protect vis-à-vis Rohingya crisis in order to bring the issue of human rights of Rohingya refugees to the forefront. This paper will draw attention towards the magnitude of human right violations against Rohingyas and the response to such violations. Finally, it will try to settle on the point of responsibility of national as well as international actors.