Event: Rohingya: The Silent Genocide?

22 Feb. Pembroke College, Oxford 

#OxfordUniversity Islamic Society is hosting an evening devoted to "#Rohingya: The Silent Genocide?". 

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing openly calls it "an unfinished business". 

Imagine what "a finished business" to them looks like. 

We'll call a spade a spade: Myanmar is committing a genocide.

Zarni

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The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar is one of the biggest humanitarian crisis the world has seen in the 21st century. Close to a million people have been ‘ethnically cleansed’ of their own land in the space of less than a year. To what extent is the Aung San Suu Kyi-led government to be blamed? Has the international community failed to tackle this disaster? Has the west been too soft with their words? What is our role as students of the University of Oxford, the very same institution Aung San Suu Kyi graduated from and is the recipient of an honorary DPhil? Is there a solution to end the human rights abuses that the ‘most persecuted minority’ has been facing for almost half a century? And many more questions that challenge the current regime in Myanmar and the stance that the global community has taken. 

Join us as some of the best academics and activists who have field work experience in Myanmar address these topics. It will be one of the biggest events held this term by any society and arguably one of the biggest in recent history.

Speakers:

Professor Azeem Ibrahim: 

-PhD, Cambridge University

-Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College.

-Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Policy in Washington

-International Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

-World Fellow, Yale University

-Rothermere Fellow, University of Oxford

-Board of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, Department of War Studies, Kings College London University.

-Ranked as a Top 100 Global Thinker by the European Social Think Tank in 2010.

-Ranked Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum

Professor Maung Zarni:

-Blogger, writer, columnist, poet, and fellow with the Genocide Documentation Center of Cambodia.

- PhD specializing in the politics of education and propaganda under military rule in Burma

(1962-88) University of Wisconsin at Madison.

- He was also schooled at the Universities of Mandalay, California and Washington

-Taught and/or held research and leadership fellowships at National-Louis University in Chicago, Georgetown, Harvard, Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, Malaya, and Brunei.

-Co-author, ‘The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas’

-Recipient of the bi-annual "Cultivation of Harmony" award from the world's oldest inter-faith organization, the Parliament of the World's Religions in 2015.

Tun Khin:

-Actual Rohingya born and brought up in Arakan, Myanmar.

-Grandson of the Parliamentary Secretary during the democratic period in Myanmar.

-President of Burmese Rohingya Organisation, UK which has been a leading voice for Rohingya people around the world.

-Actively involved in informing US Congress and State Department, British Parliament, Swedish Parliament, European Union Parliament and Commission, the UN Indigenous Forum in NY and the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

-Recipient of a leadership award from Refuges International Washington DC in April 2015 for his relentless effort working on the Rohingya issue.

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