The paper recommended that the United Nations Human Rights Council establish a Commission of Inquiry to conduct an urgent, comprehensive, and independent investigation of the human rights situation in Rakhine State. The publication came out before the most recent rounds of violence that the Rohingya have suffered, which have led 146,000 Rohingya people to flee the country and have left 400,000 people trapped in conflict zones or interned in camps. Titled Persecution of the Rohingya Muslims: Is Genocide Occurring in Myanmar’s Rakhine State? – A Legal Analysis, the paper has been cited and utilized by many news outlets and human rights organizations to argue that the persecution of the Rohingya is genocide and that the actions of Myanmar’s government forces should be condemned.
Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, analyzing whether abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar satisfy the criteria for finding genocide, was cited in a prominent New York Times column bringing attention to the atrocities that continue to occur in the country.
A 2015 paper by Yale Law School’s Allard K.
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