September 20, 2018: The Past, Present, and Future of the Rohingya Crisis
Publication Date
9-20-2018
Abstract
Speakers: Tun Khin (President Burmese Rohingya Organization UK), John Knaus (Associate Director for Asia, National Endowment for Democracy), Debbie Stothard (Director of Altsean-Burma and Secretary General of International Federation for Human Rights) and Matt Wells (Amnesty International Senior Crisis Advisor)
Who are the Rohingya? And why do so many people in Burma/Myanmar regard them as a threat to the nation? More than 900,000 Rohingya have taken refuge in Bangladesh after a series of attacks by the armed forces of Burma/Myanmar and Buddhist nationalists. Their plight is the fastest growing humanitarian emergency in the world. Panelists will present the historic roots of the contemporary crisis, which the UN has called a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing;” outline the broader political and military context in which the forced migration is occurring; and evaluate proposed solutions.
Sponsored by Judith T. ’75 and Lawrence S. ‘76 Bohn; the Departments of Asian Studies, Peace Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, International Development and Social Change ; IDCE; STAND (the student-led movement to end mass atrocities); the Political Science Department through the Chester Bland Fund; and the Department of Asian Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.
Recommended Citation
Clark University, "September 20, 2018: The Past, Present, and Future of the Rohingya Crisis " (2018). Clark University Video Archive. 281.
https://commons.clarku.edu/videoarchive/281