Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2010

Applying the Responsibility to Protect to Burma/Myanmar

March 2010

The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Abstract

This brief seeks to clarify how R2P applies to Burma and draw attention to the plight of minorities by assessing the following: whether acts perpetrated against them could constitute R2P crimes; the risk of future atrocities; and the resulting responsibility of the international community.