Free Rohingya Coalition Genocide Podcast Series

By 3CR Radical Radio | May 26, 2023 Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics.  Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Chloe DS Maung Zarni, burmese scholar and activist with over three decades of experience in international politics & activists joined the program to reflect on the ongoing uprising in Myanmar against the millitary dictatorship and the nature of the Rohingya genocide and why it should have been opposed prior to the uprising.  Note: Maung Zarni will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Ecosocialism 2023: A World Beyond Capitalism conference on July 1-2 in Naarm/Melbourne.

Dr Maung Zarni calls for the reassessment of bilateral and multilateral relations with the UN Member state of Myanmar, in the hands of the genocide perpetrators. He urges the international community of democracies to provide Myanmar resistance with arms and other support in the same manner they are unequivocally arming and supporting Ukrainian resistance against the war criminal regime of Putin. BBC World Radio 22 March 2022

Dr Maung Zarni: The International Court of Justice has overstepped its bounds by controversially accepting Myanmar Military's Agent, BBC World Service Newsday Program 6:20 GMT/London, 21 Feb 2022

Published by ABC on December 7, 2021 On RN Breakfast with Cathy Van Extel A court in Myanmar has sentenced the country's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, to two years on charges of inciting public unrest and breaching COVID-19 protocols.  Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained in a military coup in February, is facing a total of 11 charges and life imprisonment. Guest: Maung Zarni, human rights activist and founder of the Free Burma Coalition  Producer: Linda LoPresti

London, 7th May – In this latest episode of Trouble with the Truth, Lana speaks about the origins and the consequences of the coup with UK-based academic and human rights activist Maung Zarni. It’s been over three months since the military coup in Myanmar that has resulted in violence and mass protests. Press freedom has suffered immensely, as the military junta shut down the internet, muzzled and attacked journalists. In this latest episode of Trouble with the Truth, Lana speaks about the origins and the consequences of the coup with UK-based academic and human rights activist Maung Zarni. He is a co-founder Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia network, Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and has been engaged in activism for over thirty years. Zarni gave a detailed and thought-provoking account of the events in Myanmar – the unravelling of the coup, how people came together to join the fight against the junta and how civilians and journalists are navigating the social media and information shutdown. He touches on what can be done at a local and global level to help topple the military dictatorship.

Myanmar military cannot put the defiant Burmese people under its boot any more. Dr Maung Zarni, BBC World Service Weekend, 6:30 GMT and 8:30 GMT, 21 Feb 2021

In the first episode of the 2021 Free Rohingya Coalition Genocide Podcast Series, Gregory Stanton and Daniel Feierstein, the past two Presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, shared their thoughts on the perennial question of INTENT in the Genocide Convention, and discuss The Gambia vs Myanmar case at the International Court of Justice. Hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni

FRC Genocide Podcast Series (မြန်မာပိုင်း) ဒေါက်တာမောင်ဇာနည် စီစဉ်တင်ဆက်သည်။ Rohingya Blogger တည်ထောင်သူ ဦးဘစိန်နဲ့ ဒေါက်တာမောင်ဇာနည်တို့ စကားဝိုင်း FRC Genocide Podcast Series မြန်မာပိုင်းအစီအစဉ်မှာ ဦးဘစိန်က - (၁) ရိုဟင်ဂျာနဲ့ ရခိုင် အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းနှစ်ခုကြား အေးအတူပူအမျှ သင့်မြတ်စွာ နေထိုင်လာခဲ့တဲ့အကြောင်း (၂) နဂါးမင်းစီမံချက် ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာပုံအဆင့်ဆင့် (၃) ၁၉၇၈ ခုနှစ်မှာ နဂါးမင်းစီမံချက်နဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ပြီး အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက် တစ်ဖက်နိုင်ငံကို မောင်းထုတ်ခဲ့စဉ်က ကိုယ်တွေ့အတွေ့အကြုံ - စတာတွေကို အသေးစိတ်ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။

FRC Genocide Podcast Series [in English, hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni] A Conversation with Michael Becker, former associate legal officer with ICJ, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge The FRC Genocide podcast with Michael Becker covers: 1) The recent developments around the Myanmar genocide case at ICJ, specifically Canada and the Netherlands’ official joint plan to “intervene” in The Gambia vs Myanmar; 2) The Gambia team’s litigation in USA regarding Facebook’s refusal to cooperate with The Gambia legal team on the release of the potentially valuable evidence of Myanmar’s genocidal intent; and 3) Myanmar’s specific acts of non-compliance with the ICJ provisional measures order to protect Rohingyas

FRC Genocide Podcast Series [in English, hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni] The FRC Genocide Podcast with Edith Mirante covers: 1) “the unlivable Bhasan Cher island” where Bangladesh is planning to relocate 100,000 Rohingya genocide survivors 2) The sordid history of Bangladesh in mistreating Rohingya refugees over the last 40 years 3) Burma or Myanmar’s internal colonialism towards national minorities 4) Western and global corporate involvement and Burma’s “Resource Curse” 5) The slow Balkanization of Myanmar as the result of decades of repression by Myanmar or Bama ruling class

A conversation with Dr. Gianni Tognoni, Secretary General of the Rome-based Permanent Peoples Tribunal (hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni) The FRC Genocide Podcast with Dr. Gianni Tognoni covers: 1) The problems with international law as the law of the states 2) The rights of peoples, not states 3) The origin of Permanent Peoples’ Tribunals 4) The nature and proceedings of the PPT 5) PPT on international crimes such as genocides, war crimes, exploitation 6) Peoples’ Tribunals as part of People’s Struggle for Freedom, Justice and Accountability A medical doctor by profession, Dr Gianni Tognoni is the Secretary General of the Rome-based Permanent Peoples Tribunal since its establishment in 1979. Over the last 35 years Dr Tognoni has been deeply involved in the promotion of humans and people's rights, beginning with his participation in the Russell Tribunal 2 on Latin American Dictatorships ( 1973-76) and in the preparation of the Universal Declaration of Peoples Rights. In his professional field of medicine, he has collaborated with WHO in the formulation of essential drugs policies, and activated research groups in community epidemiology in most of the countries of central and Latin America, and in Africa. As research director at the Mario Negri Institute in Milan over the last 30+ years, Dr Tognoni has directed research in the fields of cardiology, intensive care, neurology and psychiatry the findings of which have been published in some of the world's leading professional journals.

The FRC Genocide Podcast with retired Dean, Professor Gill Boehringer covers: 1) The feudal structure of wealth and power in the Philippines 2) The targeted extrajudicial killings of those “red-tagged” (that is, labelled "subversives") by the Duterte regime 3) The alarming rate of the persecution of people’s lawyers and 4) The attacks on civil society including journalists Prof. Gill Boehringer is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University School of Law, Sydney, Australia. He was previously Dean at the School. His research focuses on repressive states and the violation of human and environmental rights. For the past decade he has had a special focus on the Philippines. Currently he is studying the ‘drug war” in that country, and attacks on lawyers under the regime of the authoritarian regime of President Duterte.

FRC Genocide Podcast Series [in English, hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni] Daniel Feierstein holds a Ph.D, in Social Sciences by the University of Buenos Aires. He is the Director of the Centre of Genocide Studies at the National University of Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Feierstein´s books and articles have been critical in the qualification of the crimes committed in Argentina as genocide, established by 9 different tribunals from 2006 on. Feierstein is the current President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Among his most recent books, it is worth to mention “Genocide as a Social Practice. Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina´s Military Juntas (Rutgers University Press, 2014)” and “Memorias y Representaciones. Sobre la elaboracion del genocidio I” (FCE, 2012). He also chaired the Permanent Peoples Tribunals on Sri Lanka (2013) and Myanmar (2018). In this part II of 2 conversations, Daniel Feierstein discusses: 1) US National Security Doctrine as applied to Latin America and resultant genocides & other grave crimes in the region; 2) The fallacy of treating Auschwitz as “the yardstick” against which other genocides are measured; 3) Reorganizing internal societal relations as the goal of genocides; and 4) The pervasive problem of “the genocidal mind” that frames groups and their identities as “immutable” “fixed” & "permanent".

FRC Genocide Podcast Series [in English, hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni] Febriana Firdaus, an independent investigative journalist based in eastern part of Indonesia, discusses: 1) West Papua, a resource rich and mountainous island nation, snatched from the Dutch colonial ruler by Indonesia as since 1961 2) History of Western corporate exploitation of the island’s gold, copper and timber 3) Remote, isolated and deeply impoverished lives of the predominantly Christian West Papuan people 4) Trans-Migration of Javanese Muslims as state-supported new migrants 5) Christian Church and its role in resistance and struggle for self-determination

Rene C Mugenzi is a UK-based human right activist from Rwanda. He is also Chair of the Global Campaign for Rwandans Human Rights, also based in London. Rene has spoken on several platforms including universities, the House of Common, the European Union and the UN on human rights issues relating to Rwanda. In 2011, the UK Police foiled an assassination plot that has been planned by agents of the Rwandan government. Besides Rwandan human rights issues, Rene gas campaigned for the end of Myanmar's ongoing genocide of Rohingya people. Rene Mugenzi, a UK-based Chairman of the Global Campaign for Rwandan Human Rights, discusses: 1) His mixed Hutu-Tutsi heritage and identity 2) The principal use of identification cards to kill, or not to kill 3) Radio station and communal meetings as pre-internet, and pre-Facebook platforms for the genocide propaganda 4) Geopolitics surrounding the West’s selective justice for Rwandan genocides (Hutu government’s genocide against Tutsis, and subsequent Tutsi rebel’s genocide against Hutus) 5) Reflection on the visit to Auschwitz with Rohingya, Burmese and other international activists and scholars.

FRC Genocide Podcast Series (မြန်မာပိုင်း) ဒေါက်တာမောင်ဇာနည် စီစဉ်တင်ဆက်သည်။ ကချင်လူမျိုး - အတိုက်အခံခေါင်းဆောင်နဲ့ ရှေ့နေတစ်ဦး ဖြစ်သူ ဦးခွန်ဆာမခေါ်နဲ့ ဒေါက်တာမောင်ဇာနည်တို့ရဲ့ ဗမာကိုလိုနီအမြစ်ပြုတ်ရေး စကားဝိုင်း ၎င်းတို့နှစ်ဦးက - (၁) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်း နယ်စပ်တောင်တန်းဒေသများနဲ့ မြေပြန့်ဒေသများကြားက ကိုယ်ထူကိုယ်ထအသင်းအကြောင်း (၂) မြန်မာနဲ့ကချင်၊ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာနဲ့ခရစ်ယာန်ဘာသာဝင်များရဲ့ အမွေအနှစ်များအကြောင်း (၃) ဗမာကိုလိုနီလက်အောက်ခံ နယ်စပ်ဒေသမှပြည်သူများအကြောင်း (၄) ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်း ကတိကဝတ်ပြုခဲ့တာနဲ့ ဖဒရယ်စနစ်ရဲ့မူများကို ချိုးဖောက်ခြင်း၊ တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးစုများ တန်းတူညီမျှရေးနဲ့ ကိုယ်ပိုင်ပြဌာန်းခွင့်များ ချိုးဖောက်ခံရခြင်း - စတာတွေကို စုံစုံလင်လင် ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။

Daniel Feierstein holds a Ph.D, in Social Sciences by the University of Buenos Aires. He is the Director of the Centre of Genocide Studies at the National University of Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this FRC Genocide Podcast Series, Argentinian Professor Daniel Feierstein, past-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, discusses: 1) Ralphael Lemkin’s two-phased conception of genocide - the identity-based intentional destruction of populations and re-ordering of demographic make-up and social relations 2) The spectacular failures of international law and global accountability in cases of genocides 3) Nazi and Argentinian genocides 4) Myanmar’s ICJ lawyer William Schabas and his un-ethical defense of the genocidal regime

Katherine Southwick is a consultant adviser on Atrocity Prevention project at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on the role of domestic criminal justice systems in atrocity prevention. She previously worked for over a decade on human rights, statelessness, and legal reform in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. She worked for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) in Washington DC and the Philippines on programs relating to judicial reform and the ASEAN human rights system. As a research fellow at Refugees International, she conducted research and advocacy on the global problem of statelessness. She has clerked in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and her commentary on the Rohingya crisis has appeared in media and scholarly outlets. Katherine grew up in Africa and holds a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale University as well as a PhD (to be conferred 2020) from National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. Dr. Katherine Southwick touched on the following issues: 1) On her normative theory of the rule of law 2) On the bi-continental upbringing in Africa and USA 3) Her take on #blacklivesmatter: Africans and African Americans 4) The Genocide Convention and atrocity prevention 5) The contextual limits of Law as crime prevention

David Kilgour is a human-rights activist, author, former lawyer, and Canadian politician. He served as an MP in the Canadian parliament for nearly 30 years, held the position of Secretary of State for Africa and Latin American, and subsequently for Asia. A lifelong practicing Christian, Kilgour has worked on issues such as inter-faith dialog, personal freedoms, and democratic government throughout his career. In Parliament, he was active in prayer groups while at venues and publications across the country he has spoken specifically on religious themes and politics. Commonly, his topics have been on global religious and political persecutions. With David Matas, Kilgour coauthored "Bloody Harvest: Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China (2009)". For his international activism on human rights and religious freedom, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010. This FRC Genocide Podcast covers: 1) His human rights research on China’s commercial harvesting of human organs - without the source and/or consent of vast number of "donors" 2) Communist Party’s decades-long persecution of Falun Gong members whose foundational principles include Truth, Non-violence, Compassion and Health 3) The emerging genocide of Uyghurs by China 4) Canada’s foreign policy on mass atrocity cases

FRC Genocide Podcast Series [in English, hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni] A conversation with Tomás Ojea Quintana, United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea This conversation covers: 1) On his early whistle - “elements of a genocide” - in April 2014 on Myanmar genocide 2) His criticism of Rangoon-based diplomats who called his UN-mandated human rights investigation “toxic” 3) The Universal Jurisdiction case by BROUK in Argentina - against Burmese monks, politicians, and generals with criminal responsibility including Thein Sein, Min Aung Hlaing, Wirathu and Aung San Suu Kyi 4) On racism of 88 Generation Leadership such as Ko Ko Gyi 5) The crimes against humanity against non-Rohingya ethnic peoples in Eastern and Northern Myanmar

Tapan Kumar Bose is a New Delhi-based Indian documentary film director, human rights activist, journalist and writer. Tapan podcast touches on: 1) Police Brutality, Class and Caste in India 2) The issues affecting Rohingya refugees in India and 3) The half-century of human rights activism fighting progressive causes

FRC Genocide Podcast Series (မြန်မာပိုင်းအစီအစဉ်) ဒေါက်တာမောင်ဇာနည် စီစဉ်တင်ဆက်သည်။ ဒီဆွေးနွေးခန်းမှာ ရန်ကုန်မြို့အခြေစိုက် တမ္ပဒီပအင်စီကျူ့ရဲ့ ဒါရိုက်တာ ဒေါက်တာခင်ဇော်ဝင်းက ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။ ဆွေးနွေးထားတာတွေကတော့ (၁) ဒေါက်တာခင်ဇော်ဝင်းရဲ့ဖခင်က မြန်မာသံတမန်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်ပြီး၊ သူ့ရဲ့ဘဝအစောပိုင်းမှာ လူမျိုးပေါင်းစုံမှီတင်းနေထိုင်တဲ့ ရန်ကုန်မြို့နဲ့ နယူးဒေလီမြို့တွေမှာ လူမျိုးရေးခွဲခြားမှုကို ဆန့်ကျင်တာကို နားလည်လာခဲ့တဲ့အကြောင်း (၂) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ စစ်အာဏာရှင်လက်ထက်မှာ (၁၁) နှစ်ကြာ အကျဉ်းကျခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ အတွေ့အကြုံ (၃) အကျဉ်းထောင်က လွတ်မြောက်လာပြီး နောက်ပိုင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင်း ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခံနေရတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူမျိုးများအတွက် အခြေအနေတွေ ပြောင်းလဲလာဖို့ လှုပ်ရှားနေတဲ့အကြောင်း (၄) ရန်ကုန်မြို့မှာ တမ္ပဒီပအင်စတီကျူ့ကို တည်ထောင်ပြီး မျိုးဆက်သစ်တွေမှာ ပညာရှင်တွေ ပေါ်ထွန်းလာဖို့ အသိပညာတွေပြန့်ပွားလာအောင် လုပ်ဆောင်နေတဲ့ အကြောင်း - စတာတွေကို စုံစုံလင်လင် ဆွေးနွေးပြောဆိုထားပါတယ်။

FRC Genocide Podcast Series [in Rohingya, hosted by Ro Nay San Lwin] Mr. Aman Ullah, a Rohingya historian based in Bangladesh and he was a former school teacher in Ann township and the southern part of Maungdaw, Arakan State, Myanmar, who has contributed in the field of Rohingya history and humanitarian stance. This conversation covers: 1) The earliest name of Arakan was ‘Kala Mukha’ (Land of the) Black Faces 2) The second phase of Indianisation of Arakan occurred sometime around the 6th century CE 3) In the 8th century by ruthless oppression of Hindu chauvinists 4) In the later part of 8th century several ships were wrecked on Ramree Island and the Mussalman crews sent to Arakan and placed in villages there 5) In the early part of 15th century the king of Arakan had to flee and took shelter in the Muslims Court of Gaur by the Burmese invasion 6) Muslims conquered Chittagong in 1338 and held under their sway till 1538, and Chittagong formed an integral part of Arakanese up to 1666 7) In the seventeenth century, the Portuguese with Magh captured and enslaved a large numbers of Muslims and non-Muslims from Bengal 8) In 1661 when Shah Shuja, the Maghul prince utterly defeated by Aurangzeb, was driven to seek refuge in Arakan 9) Various migrations and local converts led to form one common racial and linguistic classification as “Rohingya”; a term derived from Rohang, the ancient name of Arakan

Tasnim Nazeer is an award-winning journalist, author, producer and creative writer who has written for a variety of print and online publications including The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, TRT World, BBC Radio 2 and many more. This conversation covers: 1) The life as a mother, a wife, a human rights activist, a British Muslim journalist and writer 2) Islamophobia in the Western countries such as France and UK 3) The politics and racism of her ancestral birthplace of Sri Lanka and 4) Rohingya genocide

A conversation with Professor C. R. Abrar, Chair of Odhikar (Rights), Bangladeshi human rights watchdog, on the FRC Genocide Podcast Series covers: 1) Bangladesh state’s persecution of the Urdu speaking Bengalis in Dhaka branded as “traitors” 2) Myanmar’s continuing genocide of Rohingya people 3) Odhikar’s human rights monitoring work and 4) Research and activism on refugee and migratory movements Dr. C R Abrar is the Executive Director of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), the premier migration think tank in Bangladesh. He taught International Relations at the University of Dhaka for four decades. His areas of research and advocacy include Rohingya refugees, short-term contract labour migrants and citizenship status of the camp dwelling Urdu speaking community in Bangladesh. He successfully filed a writ petition to secure release of Rohingya refugees who served out their sentences for illegal entry but continued to be incarcerated. Abrar is President of Odhikar, the leading rights organization, and involved in campaigns for freedom of expression and assembly, accountability of law enforcement agencies and justice for those involuntarily disappeared and extrajudicially killed. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Star of Dhaka and writes on refugees, migration and rights issues.

A conversation with Imran Garda on FRC Genocide Podcast Series (hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni), 2 July 2020 Imran Garda is former S. African host of TRT World’s flagship program Newsmakers and the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize-winning novelist (with The Thunder that roars). He discusses: 1) Life as a South African Indian growing up in the final days of apartheid 2) Controversial views of Gandhi towards Black Africans and racism among S. Africa’s Indian community 3) His professional ethics and works doing over 1,000 recordings on Al Jazeera and TRT World including interviews with statesmen, revolutionaries, politicians, activists and perpetrators of international crimes 4) About his novels - including the second one he is working on and 5) Covering Myanmar genocide of Rohingyas

စစ်တွေမြို့မှာ ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ်ကစပြီး ဒုက္ခသည်ဘဝကို ရောက်ရှိသွားတဲ့ ကိုဝင်းမောင်က ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။ ဆွေးနွေးထားတာတွေကတော့ - (၁) စစ်တွေမြို့က ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာ လူတွေရဲ့ နေ့စဉ်ဘဝ (၂) မတူကွဲပြားတဲ့ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းတွေကြား အခြေအနေ (၃) ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေမှာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေ နေထိုင်ရတဲ့ အခြေအနေ (၄) လူကုန်ကူးမှုရဲ့ နောက်ကွယ်မှာ ဘယ်သူတွေရှိသလဲ? (၅) ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ်မတိုင်ခင်တုန်းက ကြုံတွေ့ခဲ့ရတဲ့အခြေအနေ

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.

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.