{"id":97318,"date":"2021-03-23T19:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=97318"},"modified":"2021-03-27T19:16:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T13:46:44","slug":"critical-case-of-rohingya-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/critical-case-of-rohingya-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical case of Rohingya people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source- <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GC48DEHAC.1&amp;imageview=0\">The Hindu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus- GS 2-<\/strong> India and its neighbourhood relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis \u2013 <\/strong>By deporting Rohingya people to Myanmar, India is violating international law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Southeast Asian country, Myanmar, has been in turmoil since the army seized power and detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, alleging fraud in a November election her party had won in a landslide.<\/li>\n<li>After that people of Myanmar stood up against the military in which many protestors have been killed OR detained.<\/li>\n<li>The increasingly brutal repression by Myanmar military, following the coup, puts any Rohingya returnees in grave danger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is India\u2019s response towards Rohingya People?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Deporting Rohingya refugees\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong> The Indian government\u00a0detained several Rohingya refugees\u00a0and plans to deport them to Myanmar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Ministry of Home Affairs recently released a directive to Border States to avoid the illegal migration from Myanmar to India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Rohingya people are not considered refugees in India- <\/strong>According to the government, Since India is not a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees and<strong> the Rohingya&#8217;s refugee status granted by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)<\/strong> had no bearing on their deportation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian government&#8217;s acts are in violation of the international legal norm of <strong>non-refoulement<\/strong>, which states that no one should be compelled to return to his or her home country from a host country &#8220;where they would face abuse, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or other irreparable damage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Despite the fact that India is not a signatory party to the Convention, <strong>non-refoulement is regarded as a principle of customary international law, and India remains bound by it.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar [IIMM]?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IIMM or Myanmar Mechanism was established by the Human Rights Council in September 2018 through\u00a0resolution 39\/2. IIMM is mandated-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To investigate &#8211; <\/strong>Collect evidence of the most serious international crimes and breaches of international law<\/li>\n<li><strong>Build case files<\/strong>&#8211; To prepare files for criminal prosecution, using information provided by the International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFMM).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The IIMM made an open call to security forces to reach out and provide information about illegal orders to build cases against those higher up the chain of command.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other nation\u2019s response toward Rohingya People-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The International legal proceedings ongoing in relation to the Rohingya \u2013<\/strong> In November 2019, the Gambia filed an application before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Myanmar. In its\u00a0application, the Gambia alleged that Myanmar has engaged in acts that violate\u00a0Genocide Convention.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Canada, the Netherlands, and Maldives have recently joined the case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This progress indicates that the international community is paying attention and is ready and willing to take action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source- The Hindu Syllabus- GS 2- India and its neighbourhood relations. Synopsis \u2013 By deporting Rohingya people to Myanmar, India is violating international law. Introduction- The Southeast Asian country, Myanmar, has been in turmoil since the army seized power and detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, alleging fraud in a November election her party&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/critical-case-of-rohingya-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critical case of Rohingya people<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704899701},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}