Free Rohingya Coalition Genocide Podcast Series

A Conversation with Penny Green on the FRC Genocide Podcast Series (English) hosted by Dr Maung Zarni.

Professor Green is Founder & Director of the International State Crime Initiative, Professor of Law and Globalization and Head of the Law Department at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

She discussed:

1) The notion of State Crime and genocide as a process, as opposed to a spectacular event of mass killings

2) ISCI research reports on Myanmar genocide of Rohingya

3) Australia’s genocide of the native people

4) The politics surrounding her nomination for UN Special Rapporteur on Palestines

Shafiur Rahman is an award-winning UK based filmmaker. His main interests are refugees, trafficking and labour struggles. He has been working on Rohingya issues for the last three and a half years.

Shafiur Rahman discusses:

1) The premeditated and coordinated nature of Myanmar’s genocidal purge of Aug 2017

2) The framing of Rohingyas as simply victims in the mass media and humanitarian industry

3) Human trafficking as the direct outcome of States’ failures

4) Submission of video-evidence to international justice mechanisms

5) His concerns for and study of Indians in S. Africa’s apartheid and the comparative interest in Rohingyas in Myanmar and disenfranchised Urdu speaking Bengali in Bangladesh

A Conversation with two Rohingya youths from the Bangladeshi refugee camps - Khin Maung and Sawyedullah

Topics discussed with Ro Nay San Lwin on the FRC Genocide Podcast Series:

1) Lack of awareness about Covid-19 in Bangladesh camps

2) What is the responsibility of the international community?

3) Collaboration among Rohingya in Bangladesh and outside is crucial

4) Rohingya youth need guidance

Shahida Tulaganova, producer/director, has more than 20 years of experience in news, current affairs and documentary film with the BBC (UK), Channel 4 (UK), and RFE/RL (Czech Republic). She has produced a number of documentary films, two of which won major prizes. Airport Donetsk, the story of the epic battle for Donetsk Airport in Eastern Ukraine, won Best Documentary at Artdocfest, 2015. How to Plan A Revolution, which followed the fight of young opposition leaders in Azerbaijan against an autocratic regime, won the Prix Europa for best current affairs television program in 2006. Her latest film Cries From Syria, which she co- produced with Oscar nominated director Evgeny Afineevsky, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017, and was released on HBO on March 13th. Shahida is also an experienced war reporter. She reported from Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Turkey, and Somalia as well as across the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia. She is also known for the BBC Panorama feature My Fake Passports And Me, an investigation into passport forgery in Europe.

In her conversation with Dr. Maung Zarni in the FRC Genocide Podcast Series, the award-winning Uzbek documentary filmmaker Shahida talks about:

1) Reporting from war and conflict zones and the focus of the reporting - people in distress

2) Her experience of interviewing Rohingya rape victims and other survivors of Myanmar genocide

3) Her 3-hr interview with ex-General Khin Nyunt, the only surviving architect of Rohingya genocide, in his palatial residence in Yangon

4) The quiet Balkanization of Syria under Assad and “Cries from Syria”

5) How to plan a revolution (her documentary about Azerbaijan’s failed youth and student revolt)

An American son of German Jewish father and Irish mother, Kevin Abosch (born 1969) is an Irish conceptual artist known for his works in photography, sculpture, installation, AI, blockchain and film. Kevin's father escaped to safety in UK on the last train of the British-sponsored Kinder Transport program while the paternal grandparents were subsequently sent to Auschwitz where they were murdered along with 1 million Nazi victims, mainly Jewish. Because of his father's intimate connection to the Holocaust Kevin has developed a strong sense of obligation to other oppressed communities such as Uyghurs and Rohingyas. His work addresses the questions about identity and value, and he considers himself an artist-activist.

Kevin talks to Dr. Maung Zarni on the FRC Genocide Podcast Series about:

- His attempt to regain control over the process of commoditized art-artist;

- On human identity & human values;

- His collaboration with Ai Wei Wei ;

- Recurring theme of genocides against various victims groups with different identities - #Jews #Rohingyas #Uyghurs;

- His sense of obligation to other oppressed communities such as Uyghurs and Rohingyas; and

- The unravelling of Truth in the age of Fake News

Nilah Zarni is a 11-year old British student who has taken a keen interest in refugee children since her first-ever visit in November 2017 to Cox's Bazar refugee camps, home to 750,000 Rohingyas from her father's native country of Myanmar or Burma, who survived that country's waves of genocidal purge. She has lived in Brunei, Malaysia and Thailand, in addition to her native Britain.

In this conversation, Nilah talks to her father Dr Maung Zarni, FRC Genocide Podcast Series Host (English language), about:

- Her impression and experience of seeing the lives of Rohingya children in the camps

- Her attempts to write a "book" about refugees for her Year 4 class at school back in UK

- Her views on #Blacklivesmatter and

- Her new project of decolonizing her own education

Raised in an Irish family of Quakers, Denis J. Halliday was the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq from 1 September 1997 until 1998. He was previously Deputy Resident Representative to Singapore of the United Nations Development Programme. He is Irish and holds an M.A. in Economics, Geography and Public Administration from Trinity College, Dublin.

After a 34-year career at the United Nations, where he had reached Assistant Secretary-General level, Halliday resigned in 1998 over the Iraq sanctions, characterizing them as "genocide". Mr Halliday - now 79 - was a member of the Panel of Judges in the Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Sri Lanka at Bremen, Germany (2013) and the PPT on Myanmar in London, UK (2017) and has been very active in the peace and justice movements, from Rohingyas and Palestinians to Eelam Tamils to anti-militarism civil disobedience.

The conversation covers:

- The leadership failure of Kofi Annan as Head of UN Peacekeeping Operations in the case of Rwanda genocide

- The Security Council and its cardinal failures

- The United States and its Iraq policies of genocide by default

- Christianity and European genocides in history

The conversation (in English) on FRC Genocide Podcast Series with Youk Chhang, Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), founder and chair of the Sleuk Rith Institute and a survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s “killing fields”.

It touches on:

- His “hidden” (personal) motive behind his genocide documentation work since 1995

- The need of move away from a sense of "victimhood"

- Documentation beyond the narrow legal purpose for providing any courts facts & documents

- Documentation with a broader aim of recording history, preserving memory, healing and building futures

- US, UK, UN and ASEAN’s direct support for the genocide for Khmer Rouge

- Genocides around the world and human solidarity

ရန်ကုန်-အခြေစိုက် နိုင်ငံတကာသတင်းထောက်တစ်ဦးနှင့် ဆွေးနွေးခန်း

FRC Genocide Podcast Series မြန်မာပိုင်းအစီအစဉ်မှာ ရန်ကုန်-အခြေစိုက် နိုင်ငံတကာသတင်းထောက် Ko Cape Diamond က ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။

ရိုနေဆန်းလွင် က စီစဉ်တင်ဆက်ထားပြီး၊ ဒီဆွေးနွေးခန်းမှာ –

- မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာနဲ့ ပတ်သက်လာရင် အသုံးအနှုံးတွေ၊ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးစံနှုန်းတွေ ဘာကြောင့်ကွဲပြားနေတာလဲ

- ဒီနှစ်ပိုင်းမှာ ပြောင်းလဲလာတဲ့ ရခိုင်ပြည်သူတွေရဲ့ အမြင်

- ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်တွင်း သတင်းယူခဲ့စဉ် ရရှိခဲ့တဲ့ အတွေ့အကြုံ၊ ICJ ကြားဖြတ်အစီအမံ နောက်ပိုင်း ပြောင်းလဲမှု ရှိ/မရှိ

-- စတာတွေ စုံစုံလင်လင် ဆွေးနွေးထားတာကို နားဆင်နိုင်ပါပြီ။

A Conversation with Farina So, Principle Deputy Director of (Genocide) Documentation Center - Cambodia and PhD genocide scholar at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell

The conversation covers:

- The genocidal experience of Cham Muslims (being forced to eat pork, remove headscarves, cut long hair, accept forced marriages and consummate, give away children to be raised as non-Muslims, etc.);

- The Khmer Rouge Tribunal;

- The act of living amongst ex-genocide killers and

- The reconciliation

Farina So is currently the Principal Deputy Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), responsible for overall management, evaluation, and fundraising for DC-Cam. Farina joined DC-Cam in 2009, progressing from volunteer to staff writer for the Center’s Searching for the Truth magazine, to team leader of the Cham Oral History project, which records the experience of the Cham Muslim community under the Khmer Rouge and ways of dealing with the genocide and engaged the community with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)’s proceedings. In 2011, Farina published her first monograph, titled, The Hijab of Cambodia: Memories of Cham Muslim Women after the Khmer Rouge, which discusses different accounts of women’s experiences of mass atrocity and their coping strategies. Farina has published articles and chapters related to human rights, gender, and Islam, and has delivered presentations to local and international audiences on a wide range of topics from genocide and oral history, to gender-based violence. She has also appeared in both local and international news related to the above topics and recently in UN news on “Champions of Prevention” Photo Exhibition. Farina holds a Master’s Degree in Southeast Asian Studies and is currently pursuing a Doctoral Degree in Global Studies.