Myanmar should pay Reparations to Rohingyas

The article asks whether Myanmar is obliged under international law to pay reparations to the more than 700,000 Rohingyas who had fled to Bangladesh since August 2017.

Finding Myanmar bound by customary international law, it writes: ‘Consequently, under international law, it now has the duty to pay reparations to the Rohingyas for the breach of the aforesaid obligations.’ It argues for reparation in all five forms set out in the United Nations Basic Principles and Guidelines of 2005.

It writes: ‘The international community must ensure that a people who have been forced to flee their scorching villages, lost their loved ones, lost everything they had, and will forever be traumatised get justice—retributive and restorative alike.’