ROHINGYAS: Have We Forgotten Them?
Wednesday, 4 June | 3pm UK | 8pm Bangladesh | 8.30pm Myanmar
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The hectic pace of global events means a constant upending of serious, humanitarian issues for more recent events. Amidst dramatic developments in South Asia — the change of political guard in Bangladesh, tensions between India-Pakistan, the emergence of a Left-of-Centre government in debt-riddled Sri Lanka, civil war and a devastating earthquake in Myanmar among much else — have we forgotten the Rohingyas?
SPEAKERS: Mabrur Ahmed (@restlessmabrur) is Founder, Director & CEO of 'Restless Beings', who work on the ground in the Rohingya Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh); Tun Khin (Ziaul Gaffar) (@tunkhin80) is a Rohingya activist and human rights advocate, and President of Burmese Rohingya Association UK; Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee) is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Loughborough University, and author of Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech (2021); Shafiur Rahman (@shafiur) is a London-based journalist & documentary film-maker who has worked extensively on the Rohingyas, and writes the rohingyarefugees.news newsletter.
DISCUSSANT: Penny Green (@pennyjgreen) is Professor of Law & Globalisation at Queen Mary University of London, Founder & Director of the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) and recently completed a research project on the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar.
CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).
To attend this event, please register (free) by e-mailing southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk; the livestream link will be sent to all registered attendees on the day of the event.
Image © Imran Molla, Bandarban Stadium, Bangladesh, 2021, Unsplash.
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