Free Rohingya Coalition Genocide Podcast Series

FRC Genocide Podcast Series မြန်မာပိုင်းအစီအစဉ်မှာ ရခိုင်လူငယ်နှစ်ဦးဖြစ်တဲ့ ကိုခိုင်မြတ်နိုင်၊ ကိုမောင်ခိုင်သိန်း တို့က ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။

ရိုနေဆန်းလွင် က စီစဉ်တင်ဆက်ထားပြီး၊ ဒီဆွေးနွေးခန်းမှာ -

- ရခိုင်နဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာပြဿနာက ဘာကို အခြေခံနေသလဲ

- Arakanese ဆိုတဲ့ခေါင်းစဉ်အောက်မှာ အာရ်ကာန်ဒေသရဲ့ လူမျိုးစုတွေအားလုံး စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်လာဖို့

- ရိုဟင်ဂျာဂျီနိုဆိုက်လို နောက်ထပ်မဖြစ်ဖို့ ဘယ်လိုကာကွယ်ကြမလဲ

- ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ ကို အကြောင်းပြပြီး လူမျိုးရေးမုန်းတီးမှုဖန်တီးနေတာတွေကို တိုက်ဖျက်ဖို့

-- စတာတွေကို စုံစုံလင်လင် ဆွေးနွေးထားတာကို နားဆင်နိုင်ပါပြီ။

Haider Khan is a Mumbai-based Indian "photographer with director’s mind, who sees the world as a cinematic canvas." He strives to help mainstream the concerns for Rohingya genocide survivors through his dramatized film "Rohingya People from Nowhere", moving away from the documentary approach towards one of the most heart-wrenching tales of genocidally persecuted Myanmar's Rohingya people. This is his first-ever film.

The conversation covers:

- The director's choice to marry realism and "glamourization" in order to mainstream Rohingya's tales

- The cast of characters

- Universal humanism and human compassion

- The director's message to the Rohingyas

Son of a Croatian mother and Muslim Bosnian (or Bosniak) father, A conversation with Demir Mahmutcehajic, a prominent Bosniak human rights activist

Demir Mahmutcehajic (44) is a prominent Bosniak (or Muslim Bosnian) human rights activist and politician based in the old town of Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a teenager in 1992, he and his family fled hthe Serbian-controlled Bosnia to his mother’s Croatian hometown named Vela Luka. From Croatia they had to leave in a year for safety first in Kuwait and subsequently to Slovenia when Croatian troops began their attacks on Bosnia and Herzegovina. After drifting as a refugee in Kuwait, Slovenia and later Italy for several years, Demir was resettled in UK where he resumed his high school education, and completed BSc in internet engineering at Southbank University in London. In UK, he began his human rights activism and went on to become a founding member of the Islamic Human Rights Commission. In 2005, with a group of other human rights-minded Bosniaks. He started a civil rights movement DOSTA! (Enough) in Bosnia, and Demir and his family returned to Stolac in 2011. He has been active in local electoral politics in Stolac, campaigning against corruption and electoral frauds and conducts genocide educational programs in Srebrenica, Prijedor, and other places of mass killings.

The conversation covers:

- The dangerous myth of racial and ethnic purity

- The historical dynamics among ethnic and religious communities in the former Yugoslavia, founded as an anti-Fascist bloc of six different ethnic nations in the Balkans

- The International Court of Justice ruling in 2007 that the State of Serbia did not commit genocide, and that only the mass-killing of nearly 8000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica constituted an act of genocide

- The phenomenon of formerly persecuted ethnic and religious groups turning murderous towards other minorities in their midst

- Some lessons for Rohingya people

Former ICJ Associate Legal Officer  and PhD scholar at Cambridge U. Michael A. Becker shared his expert views on the various aspects of The Gambia vs Myanmar case at the ICJ, driving home his original message of a legal challenge at the ICJ not as a cure-all remedy for the Rohingyas but rather  as a tool in a broader multifaceted global strategy to end the genocide and facilitate the restoration of Rohingyas basic rights and citizenship in Myanmar.

Michael A. Becker  is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, where he lectures on public international law. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School in the United States, and is in the final stages of completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge on the topic of international commissions of inquiry and fact-finding missions. Especially relevant for our conversation on the FRC Genocide Podcast Series, Mike spent four years as an Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and has written extensively about the Court.  He spoke to podcast series host (English) Dr Maung Zarni from Carlow, Ireland.

On 23 May Myanmar filed its first report to the International Court of Justice with regards to its compliance with the ICJ-ordered “provisional measures” on the allegations of Myanmar genocide against Rohingyas. The court declared Muslim ethnic Rohingyas “a protected group” under the Genocide Convention.

In this inaugural interview on the Free Rohingya Coalition Genocide Podcast Series, the world renowned genocide scholar and founding President of the Genocide Watch Gregory Stanton spoke to Dr Maung Zarni on a range of topics including The Gambia vs Myanmar case at the ICJ, the likely outcome of this international justice process, the record of global accountability efforts within the inter-state system called the United Nations, and other strategic possibilities of activism for Rohingya survivors and activists seeking accountability and justice.

This is the first of the 2 part Conversation with Professor Stanton.

Free Rohingya Coalition welcomes the City of London Corporation's stripping Myanmar leader Suu Kyi of its honours and calls on Britain's government, investors and institutions to suspend ties with Genocidal Country.

Dr. Maung Zarni, Co-founder and Burmese Coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition talks to South Africa's Radio Islam.