Articles by C R Abrar – The Daily Star (Bangladesh)

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UN Security Council and the Rohingya: Yet another Charade?
C R Abrar – The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 7 May 2018

5 May 2018 – The charade is exposed when the UK UNSC representative told BBC in Burma on May 1 that there is no difference between Burma’s domestic investigation and international investigation as long as Aung San Suu Kyi accepts and launches the investigation with the help of the Security Council. What could be crueller for the victims of genocide than the SC openly lending its collective assistance to the genocidal government to conduct such investigation into its own crimes?

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Right to Return, Repression and Resistance: 70 Years after Naqba (the Catastrophe)
C R Abrar – The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 23 Apr 2018

18 Apr 2018 – March 30 marked the beginning of a six-week passive resistance of the Palestinians to highlight their expulsion from their ancestral land by the Zionist forces 70 years ago. Over this period Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank have been joined by thousands of Palestinian diaspora refugees in holding a Great March of Return along the Israeli border.

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Protected Return to Protected Homeland: Only Durable Solution to Burma’s Rohingya Genocide
C R Abrar – The Daily Star (Bangladesh), 16 Apr 2018

10 Apr 2018 – Of the three “durable solutions” recognised in conventional refugee discourse, if “voluntary repatriation” is ruled out, then “third-country resettlement” and “local integration” remain the other options. Are those options feasible in the Rohingya refugee context?

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