Rohingya-Myanmar Crisis: How Is ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights?

Abstract

Violence and murder against Rohingya ethnic seem endless. It continues without a concrete solution to end their suffering, an ethnic minority called the UN in 2013 as the world's worst-hit group. European Rohingya Council based in Europe, counted about 3.000 Rohingyas massacred in three days. Another 18.000 fled from Myanmar, avoiding slaughter and seeking a better life in a place that is not necessarily unthinkable. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Rohingya is an ethnic minority group living mainly in the state of Rakhine, western Myanmar. One third of Rakhine's population is estimated to be contributed by one million Rohingyas in Myanmar. Rohingya differs from Myanmar's dominant group ethnically, linguistically, and religiously. The status of thousands of Rohingyas in Myanmar today does not have stateless citizenship. The absence of AICHR's visible role by the public in addressing conflict-related issues in Rohingya-Myanmar is due to the limitation of legal personality, the strengthening of the reduction of the effectiveness of legal personality and the low politics of human rights enforcement in Southeast Asia.

Keywords: the crisis, Rohingya-Myanmar, AICHR.