The impact of legal terminology on the minority situation in International law .The Case study of Rohingya in Myanmar.

Terminology related to minority issues in international law has a broad impact on managing the cultural diversity such as the rights of racial, ethnic, national and language groups and also the security of the states, societal groups and in general human security. Lack of transparency about the meaning of words such as ethnicity, people, nation, indigenous and different legal interpretations surronding them, provoke a grave difficulty in the course of coding and promoting minority rights. This global challenge has created much more serious confusion in countries like Myanmar where minority- state relation is highly securitized. Securitization of minority issues along with this terminology ambiguity in international law make the minority-state relation in those country more complicated. This paper tries to show how the confusion around terminology affects the minority issues in the legal context.