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Chapter Five assesses the way in which the Malaysian government dealt with human rights violations in Myanmar. It shows that over time the Malaysian government altered its strategy, as domestic expectations regarding norm compliance with human rights protection and non-interference changed. The shift in domestic expectations, reflected both the relatively low degree of internalization of human rights protection and promotion in Malaysia compared to Thailand and Indonesia, as well as the presence of a major domestic crisis that coincided with two of the three analyzed cases of human rights violations in Myanmar. Reflecting domestic expectations successive Malaysian governments first tried to reconcile the norms and later switched to a strategy of conflict denial. In doing so, the government challenged the predominant Western interpretation of the situations arguing that they were not cases of human rights violations but humanitarian disasters. It reframed the situation and in denying the existence of a norm conflict between non-interference and human rights protection the Malaysian government resolved the tension between the two norms in those particular instances. |
