International Civil Liability for the Committed Crimes in Myanmar

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Assistant professor at University of Tehran

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A series of ongoing violence against Muslims in Myanmar has followed the innumerable international crimes. In the age of the accountability for the international crimes, this paper aims to answer this question which world community tools make the perpetrators be held accountable for these offences in Myanmar. At the international level, in the area of the individual criminal responsibility, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has prosecuted the crimes against humanity committed in Myanmar and the international liability of Myanmar related to the genocide against Muslims with the Gambia’s official complaint in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is to proceed. Also for the investigation and documentation of the human rights violations in Myanmar UN Human Right Council has applied the fact finding mechanism to record this genocide. In the national level, universal jurisdiction has provided a capacity for legal proceeding related to the massacres have been occurred in Myanmar. It has been applied in Argentina. The experience against impunity in Myanmar includes teachings for confronting the committed genocide in other crises that it is necessary to examine them.
 

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