Free Rohingya Coalition Genocide Podcast Series

Katherine Southwick is a consultant adviser on Atrocity Prevention project at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on the role of domestic criminal justice systems in atrocity prevention. She previously worked for over a decade on human rights, statelessness, and legal reform in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. She worked for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) in Washington DC and the Philippines on programs relating to judicial reform and the ASEAN human rights system. As a research fellow at Refugees International, she conducted research and advocacy on the global problem of statelessness. She has clerked in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and her commentary on the Rohingya crisis has appeared in media and scholarly outlets. Katherine grew up in Africa and holds a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale University as well as a PhD (to be conferred 2020) from National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.

Dr. Katherine Southwick touched on the following issues:

1) On her normative theory of the rule of law

2) On the bi-continental upbringing in Africa and USA

3) Her take on #blacklivesmatter: Africans and African Americans

4) The Genocide Convention and atrocity prevention

5) The contextual limits of Law as crime prevention

David Kilgour is a human-rights activist, author, former lawyer, and Canadian politician. He served as an MP in the Canadian parliament for nearly 30 years, held the position of Secretary of State for Africa and Latin American, and subsequently for Asia. A lifelong practicing Christian, Kilgour has worked on issues such as inter-faith dialog, personal freedoms, and democratic government throughout his career. In Parliament, he was active in prayer groups while at venues and publications across the country he has spoken specifically on religious themes and politics. Commonly, his topics have been on global religious and political persecutions. With David Matas, Kilgour coauthored "Bloody Harvest: Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China (2009)". For his international activism on human rights and religious freedom, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010.

This FRC Genocide Podcast covers:

1) His human rights research on China’s commercial harvesting of human organs - without the source and/or consent of vast number of "donors"

2) Communist Party’s decades-long persecution of Falun Gong members whose foundational principles include Truth, Non-violence, Compassion and Health

3) The emerging genocide of Uyghurs by China

4) Canada’s foreign policy on mass atrocity cases

FRC Genocide Podcast Series [in English, hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni]

A conversation with Tomás Ojea Quintana, United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea

This conversation covers:

1) On his early whistle - “elements of a genocide” - in April 2014 on Myanmar genocide

2) His criticism of Rangoon-based diplomats who called his UN-mandated human rights investigation “toxic”

3) The Universal Jurisdiction case by BROUK in Argentina - against Burmese monks, politicians, and generals with criminal responsibility including Thein Sein, Min Aung Hlaing, Wirathu and Aung San Suu Kyi

4) On racism of 88 Generation Leadership such as Ko Ko Gyi

5) The crimes against humanity against non-Rohingya ethnic peoples in Eastern and Northern Myanmar

Tapan Kumar Bose is a New Delhi-based Indian documentary film director, human rights activist, journalist and writer.

Tapan podcast touches on:

1) Police Brutality, Class and Caste in India

2) The issues affecting Rohingya refugees in India and

3) The half-century of human rights activism fighting progressive causes

FRC Genocide Podcast Series (မြန်မာပိုင်းအစီအစဉ်)

ဒေါက်တာမောင်ဇာနည် စီစဉ်တင်ဆက်သည်။

ဒီဆွေးနွေးခန်းမှာ ရန်ကုန်မြို့အခြေစိုက် တမ္ပဒီပအင်စီကျူ့ရဲ့ ဒါရိုက်တာ ဒေါက်တာခင်ဇော်ဝင်းက ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။

ဆွေးနွေးထားတာတွေကတော့

(၁) ဒေါက်တာခင်ဇော်ဝင်းရဲ့ဖခင်က မြန်မာသံတမန်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်ပြီး၊ သူ့ရဲ့ဘဝအစောပိုင်းမှာ လူမျိုးပေါင်းစုံမှီတင်းနေထိုင်တဲ့ ရန်ကုန်မြို့နဲ့ နယူးဒေလီမြို့တွေမှာ လူမျိုးရေးခွဲခြားမှုကို ဆန့်ကျင်တာကို နားလည်လာခဲ့တဲ့အကြောင်း

(၂) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ စစ်အာဏာရှင်လက်ထက်မှာ (၁၁) နှစ်ကြာ အကျဉ်းကျခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ အတွေ့အကြုံ

(၃) အကျဉ်းထောင်က လွတ်မြောက်လာပြီး နောက်ပိုင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင်း ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခံနေရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူမျိုးများအတွက် အခြေအနေတွေ ပြောင်းလဲလာဖို့ လှုပ်ရှားနေတဲ့အကြောင်း

(၄) ရန်ကုန်မြို့မှာ တမ္ပဒီပအင်စတီကျူ့ကို တည်ထောင်ပြီး မျိုးဆက်သစ်တွေမှာ ပညာရှင်တွေ ပေါ်ထွန်းလာဖို့ အသိပညာတွေပြန့်ပွားလာအောင် လုပ်ဆောင်နေတဲ့ အကြောင်း - စတာတွေကို စုံစုံလင်လင် ဆွေးနွေးပြောဆိုထားပါတယ်။

FRC Genocide Podcast Series [in Rohingya, hosted by Ro Nay San Lwin]

Mr. Aman Ullah, a Rohingya historian based in Bangladesh and he was a former school teacher in Ann township and the southern part of Maungdaw, Arakan State, Myanmar, who has contributed in the field of Rohingya history and humanitarian stance.

This conversation covers:

1) The earliest name of Arakan was ‘Kala Mukha’ (Land of the) Black Faces

2) The second phase of Indianisation of Arakan occurred sometime around the 6th century CE

3) In the 8th century by ruthless oppression of Hindu chauvinists

4) In the later part of 8th century several ships were wrecked on Ramree Island and the Mussalman crews sent to Arakan and placed in villages there

5) In the early part of 15th century the king of Arakan had to flee and took shelter in the Muslims Court of Gaur by the Burmese invasion

6) Muslims conquered Chittagong in 1338 and held under their sway till 1538, and Chittagong formed an integral part of Arakanese up to 1666

7) In the seventeenth century, the Portuguese with Magh captured and enslaved a large numbers of Muslims and non-Muslims from Bengal

8) In 1661 when Shah Shuja, the Maghul prince utterly defeated by Aurangzeb, was driven to seek refuge in Arakan

9) Various migrations and local converts led to form one common racial and linguistic classification as “Rohingya”; a term derived from Rohang, the ancient name of Arakan

Tasnim Nazeer is an award-winning journalist, author, producer and creative writer who has written for a variety of print and online publications including The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, TRT World, BBC Radio 2 and many more.

This conversation covers:

1) The life as a mother, a wife, a human rights activist, a British Muslim journalist and writer

2) Islamophobia in the Western countries such as France and UK

3) The politics and racism of her ancestral birthplace of Sri Lanka and

4) Rohingya genocide

A conversation with Professor C. R. Abrar, Chair of Odhikar (Rights), Bangladeshi human rights watchdog, on the FRC Genocide Podcast Series covers:

1) Bangladesh state’s persecution of the Urdu speaking Bengalis in Dhaka branded as “traitors”

2) Myanmar’s continuing genocide of Rohingya people

3) Odhikar’s human rights monitoring work and

4) Research and activism on refugee and migratory movements

Dr. C R Abrar is the Executive Director of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), the premier migration think tank in Bangladesh. He taught International Relations at the University of Dhaka for four decades. His areas of research and advocacy include Rohingya refugees, short-term contract labour migrants and citizenship status of the camp dwelling Urdu speaking community in Bangladesh. He successfully filed a writ petition to secure release of Rohingya refugees who served out their sentences for illegal entry but continued to be incarcerated. Abrar is President of Odhikar, the leading rights organization, and involved in campaigns for freedom of expression and assembly, accountability of law enforcement agencies and justice for those involuntarily disappeared and extrajudicially killed. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Star of Dhaka and writes on refugees, migration and rights issues.

A conversation with Imran Garda on FRC Genocide Podcast Series (hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni), 2 July 2020

Imran Garda is former S. African host of TRT World’s flagship program Newsmakers and the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize-winning novelist (with The Thunder that roars).

He discusses:

1) Life as a South African Indian growing up in the final days of apartheid

2) Controversial views of Gandhi towards Black Africans and racism among S. Africa’s Indian community

3) His professional ethics and works doing over 1,000 recordings on Al Jazeera and TRT World including interviews with statesmen, revolutionaries, politicians, activists and perpetrators of international crimes

4) About his novels - including the second one he is working on and

5) Covering Myanmar genocide of Rohingyas

စစ်တွေမြို့မှာ ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ်ကစပြီး ဒုက္ခသည်ဘဝကို ရောက်ရှိသွားတဲ့ ကိုဝင်းမောင်က ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။

ဆွေးနွေးထားတာတွေကတော့ -

(၁) စစ်တွေမြို့က ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာ လူတွေရဲ့ နေ့စဉ်ဘဝ

(၂) မတူကွဲပြားတဲ့ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းတွေကြား အခြေအနေ

(၃) ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေ နေထိုင်ရတဲ့ အခြေအနေ

(၄) လူကုန်ကူးမှုရဲ့ နောက်ကွယ်မှာ ဘယ်သူတွေရှိသလဲ?

(၅) ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ်မတိုင်ခင်တုန်းက ကြုံတွေ့ခဲ့ရတဲ့အခြေအနေ