2-Day int’l conference on Rohingya crisis begins in city tomorrow
Human rights activists from across the world are meeting tomorrow at a two-day international conference in the capital city to find the ways for a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis.
Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) is organizing the conference titled 'Ending the Slow Burning Genocide of Rohingyas by Myanmar' at Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University (DU).
"Human rights activists, including academicians, lawyers and genocide scholars from different countries will participate in the conference," RMMRU Coordinator CR Abrar said at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) here today.
Char Emeritus of Parliament of the World Religions and Co-Chair, One America Coalition Dr Malik Mujahid, Panel of Judges of Permanent People's Tribunal on State Crimes on Myanmar Dr Helen Jarvis, Dr Nancy Hudson-Rodd of the University of Tasmania in Australia, Tapan Bose of South Asia Forum for Human Rights in Kathmandu, Bilal Raschid from the USA, Advocate Cheryl Dsouza of the Supreme Court of India, Nobel Peace Laureate and veteran of anti-apartheid movement in South Africa Bishop Desmond Tutu, Bangladesh Buddha Kristi Prochar Sangha President Sanghanayak Suddhanda Mahathero, Bangladesh Supreme Court Judge Justice Dr Syed Refaat and DU Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury will attend the conference, among others, he said.
Myanmar citizens, including Burmese-Rakhine lawyer and activist (USA) Ma Khin Mai Aung, Professor (Rtd) of Orange Coast College in California U Kyaw Win and human rights activist Dr Maung Zarni will participate in the conference.
A keynote paper will be presented in the conference highlighting the root causes behind the recurring waves of Rohingya exodus since 1978, Abrar said.
In the light of the repatriation arrangement signed by Dhaka and Naypyidaw, the conference would act as a platform for mobilizing ideas of eminent genocide scholars and preeminent human rights activists from across the world, including Bangladeshi academicians, intellectuals and researchers, to find out the ways of permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis, he said.
The two-day conference will end on Thursday through a solidarity procession in the city demanding restoration of Myanmar citizenship rights of the Rohingyas and trial of the perpetrators of genocide in the International Criminal Court.
The procession will be brought out from the National Museum at Shahbag and it will end reaching at the central Shaheed Minar in the city.
Besides, a daylong art exhibition titled 'Dart against Genocide' will be held at level-2 of the DU Senate Bhaban tomorrow.
Panel of Judges of Permanent People's Tribunal on State Crimes on Myanmar Dr Helen Jarvis and prominent Bangladesh lawyer Dr Shahdeen Malik were present at the press conference.
Source: BSS
