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View all search resultsWhile traditional diplomacy falters in the face of Myanmar’s military violence, a quiet legal revolution is brewing in Southeast Asia: By turning to domestic courts in Timor-Leste and Indonesia, survivors are testing a bold, universal legal theory to ensure that victims of mass atrocities finally have their day in court.
Rohingya activists and legal advocacy groups are pinning their hopes on Indonesia’s new penal code to push forward a genocide case against Myanmar's newly-elected President Min Aung Hlaing, in what they say could be a long-awaited breakthrough for accountability.
Myanmar has denied accusations of genocide and said the 2017 offensive that forced at least 730,000 Rohingya from their homes and into neighboring Bangladesh was a legitimate counterterrorist operation.
For the Rohingya minority, violence began well before the 2021 coup, with a military crackdown in 2017 sending legions of the mostly Muslim group fleeing Myanmar's Rakhine state to neighboring Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Dhaka must make a decisive shift toward a pragmatic pursuit of its own interests, primarily national security and stability, and aim to leverage its role in the Rohingya issue to bring an end to the crisis, not manage it indefinitely in relative isolation.
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