{"id":195,"date":"2013-06-21T16:06:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/carleton.ca\/install\/?p=195"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:28:53","slug":"crimes-against-humanity-the-case-of-rohingya-in-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/2013\/crimes-against-humanity-the-case-of-rohingya-in-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimes Against Humanity- The Case of Rohingya in Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Crimes Against Humanity- The Case of Rohingya in Burma\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Burma\u2019s Rohingya Muslims are currently subject to crimes against humanity by the Burmese government, witnessed in recent acts of murder, torture, forced displacement, imprisonment, religious persecution, and restriction of movement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Should the Burmese state fail to end such crimes against humanity, there is potential for the situation to escalate to genocide. Given its mandate \u201cto ensure that the government of Canada does all that it can to prevent and protect civilian populations from genocide and crimes against humanity,\u201d the All\u2010Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity is urged to take immediate action.i Notably, Canada should be encouraged to use regional diplomatic relations to lobby for amendments to Burma\u2019s 1982 Citizenship Law, strengthen diplomatic relations with Burma and establish and host a truth commission to overcome recent violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/1443-1.pdf\">Crimes Against Humanity- The Case of Rohingya in Burma<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burma\u2019s Rohingya Muslims are currently subject to crimes against humanity by the Burmese government, witnessed in recent acts of murder, torture, forced displacement, imprisonment, religious persecution, and restriction of movement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Should the Burmese state fail to end such crimes against humanity, there is potential for the situation to escalate to genocide. Given its mandate \u201cto ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failed-and-fragile-states-reports-and-briefs"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}