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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

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

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

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

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