{"id":71997,"date":"2016-04-18T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=71997"},"modified":"2016-04-18T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:33:08","slug":"myanmars-democratic-transition-what-does-that-mean-for-the-persecuted-rohingya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/04\/myanmars-democratic-transition-what-does-that-mean-for-the-persecuted-rohingya\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar\u2019s Democratic Transition: What Does That Mean for the Persecuted Rohingya?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One-Day Open Research Conference, the University of Oxford<\/em>
\nDate: 11 May 2016 (8:30 am \u2013 4:30 pm)<\/em>
\nVenue: Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD\u00a0 <\/em>https:\/\/www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk\/ <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Hosted by the South Asian Research Cluster, Wolfson College, Oxford University<\/p>\n

Objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. to continue shining the spotlight of university and independent research onto what is increasingly recognized as Myanmar\u2019s slow genocide of the Rohingya among international genocide and legal scholars as well as world\u2019s icons such as Desmond Tutu, George Soros, Mairead Maguire, Amartya Sen, the Dalai Lama etc.;<\/li>\n
  2. to call urgent attention to recent research into the deplorable human conditions under which over 1 million Rohingya live in \u2018vast open prisons\u2019 (i.e., Rohingya villages and towns) and the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, which the New York Times call \u201cthe 21st century concentration camps\u201d;<\/li>\n
  3. to present evidence to persuade Myanmar\u2019s Aung San Suu Kyi government to prioritize the end of decades-long state persecution of the Rohingya minority; and<\/li>\n
  4. to brainstorm critical and constructive ideas which may enable Myanmar\u2019s democrats to remove one of the greatest obstacles to genuine democratization \u2013 the continued persecution of an entire ethnic minority in Western Burma<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    CONFERENCE AGENDA<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Conference Host\u2019s Welcome<\/strong> 8:30 am -8:35 am
    \nEmeritus Professor Barbara Harriss-White, Coordinator, SARC, Wolfson College<\/p>\n

    Introduction<\/strong> 8:35 am \u2013 8:40 am
    \nDr Maung Zarni, Research Scholar, The Sleuk Rith Institute, a permanent documentation centre, Cambodia & the author of Why Do Burmese Generals Reform? Or Do They?<\/em> (forthcoming, Yale University Press)<\/p>\n

    Download PDF file for complete information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Research conference on Rohingya Wolfson College Oxford 11 May 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One-Day Open Research Conference, the University of Oxford: 11 May 2016. To continue shining the spotlight of university and independent research onto Myanmar\u2019s slow genocide of the Muslim Rohingya among international genocide and legal scholars and world\u2019s icons such as Desmond Tutu, George Soros, Mairead Maguire, Amartya Sen, the Dalai Lama etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}