Month: June 2020

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.

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 talesThe cast of charactersUniversal humanism and human compassionThe 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

This conversation covers: • The challenge of proving genocidal intent at the ICJ and how Gambia might successfully argue its case within the narrow limits of the Court’s case law   • Debates about what Myanmar’s compliance with the provisional measures order of 23 January requires • The importance of treating the ICJ litigation as part of a broader campaign aimed at vindicating the rights of the Rohingya 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