In its 15 years of existence, R2P has appeared in more than 90 UN Security Council resolutions, leading to peacekeeping missions being deployed to protect civilians in places like the Central African Republic or South Sudan. R2P was a collective commitment to end the politics of indifference and inaction once and for all. It was an idea that sought to overcome the shame and ignominy after the failure to halt the genocide in Rwanda and at Srebrenica during the 1990s. The principle of R2P was adopted by the UN in 2005 and stipulates that the international community has a responsibility to protect people from crimes against humanity, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide. The fact that their messages are about R2P and are in English вЂ“ a language that is only spoken by about 5 percent of MyanmarвЂ™s population вЂ“ points to the fact that they are pleading their case to a global audience. In short, people all across Myanmar have mobilized to resist the 1 February coup and are calling on the international community to not just condemn what is happening in their country, but to act. Even the waterways have been converted into improvised protest sites, with one photograph showing a pro-R2P message floating near serene rural fields. In Kon Chan Kone, young protesters used stencils to spray-paint, вЂњWe Need R2P, We Want DemocracyвЂќ in the streets. In Hpa Kant, in Kachin State, people peacefully protested carrying roses and R2P signs. In Tamu town, in the far north-west near the border with India, lines of people marched in white t-shirts with вЂњR2PвЂќ printed across them. Despite a strict night-time curfew, protesters came into the streets of Yangon and Mandalay to write вЂњWe Need R2PвЂќ and вЂњR2P вЂ“ Save MyanmarвЂќ in candlelight.ДЄs large daily protests continued over the following weeks, thousands more protesters were photographed carrying placards with similar R2P вЂ“ or вЂњresponsibility to protectвЂќ вЂ“ messages. On Friday, 5 March, as the UN Security Council was meeting in its solemn chamber in New York, people across Myanmar held peaceful vigils to protest against the bloody reimposition of military rule in their country.

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