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Exposing Statelessness: Understanding the Plight of Burma's Rohingya
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| Location: | OSI-New York |
| Event Date: | May 27, 2010 |
| Speakers: | Saiful Huq Omi, Maung Tun Khin, Richard Sollom, Maureen Aung-Thwin, Rupert Skilbeck |
For decades, the xenophobic military junta in Burma has refused to recognize the Rohingya, a distinct Muslim ethnic minority living in western Burma, as one of the country's many ethnic nationalities. As a result the Rohingya have suffered human rights violations, and a vast majority of them have been denied official recognition of citizenship.
Using Saiful Huq Omi's photographs and the recent Physicians for Human Rights report Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh as a point of departure, this event explores the impact of statelessness on the Rohingya.
Panelists
- Maureen Aung-Thwin, Director, Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative, Open Society Institute
- Maung Tun Khin, founding member, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK
- Saiful Huq Omi, Photographer, "The Disowned and the Denied: Stateless Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh"
- Richard Sollom, Director of Research and Investigations -Armed Conflict and Public Health, Physicians for Human Rights
- Rupert Skilbeck, Litigation Director, Open Society Justice Initiative
The event is cosponsored by the Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project, Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative, and Justice Initiative.
Saiful Huq Omi’s exhibition "The Disowned and the Denied: Stateless Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh" is part of the Moving Walls 17 photography exhibition at the Open Society Institute.
