Yasnosokirskiy Yu.A. The concept of the “Responsibility to Protect” and the armed conflict in Myanmar

Abstract: The subject of this research is the concept of the “Responsibility to Protect”, the key positions of which are contained in its original document – Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2002). A special attention is given to the analysis of the application of the “Responsibility to Protect” concept during the armed conflict in Myanmar; research of the issue on violation of human rights and the possibility of application of this concept in the current situation; as well as analysis of the humanitarian basis as the cause for possible military intervention into the affairs of the sovereign state. The scientific novelty consists in the consideration of the possibility of implementing the positions of the concept of the “Responsibility to Protect” pertaining to a separate country, specific features of its military regime and antigovernment protest. The author comes to the conclusion that the attempt to apply the “Responsibility to Protect” had in essence the political rather than humanitarian motives.

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