Experts from home and abroad will meet at an international conclave on Rohingya crisis to be held in The Hague, Netherlands on October 18 to bring focus to the issue of 'justice and accountability' for Rohingyas, reports UNB.
The Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ) of Brac University, Asia Justice Coalition, and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam will organise the event.
Since 2017, Bangladesh has been hosting over a million Rohingyas. This is in addition to hosting an already large Rohingya community that has crossed over for decades, resulting in Bangladesh accommodating 4.7 per cent of total global refugee population.
The crimes committed in Myanmar against Rohingyas have triggered a number of accountability initiatives, including a case before the International Criminal Court on forced deportation as a crime against humanity, said the organisers.
Canada's Special Envoy to Myanmar Bob Rae, Gambia's Minister of Justice Abubacarr Marie Tambadou, Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque, Rector of International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam Inger Hutter, former Ambassador Laetitia van den Assum, Vice Chancellor of Brac University Vincent Chang, Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal, Director of Centre for Global Policy, USA Azeem Ibrahim, Senior Legal Adviser of International Court of Justice Kingsley Abbott, Chairperson of Asia Pacific Refugee Right Network, Malaysia Lilianne Fan, South Asia Director of Amnesty International Biraj Patnaik, Rohingya leader and President of Burmese Rohingya Organization, UK Tun Khin, Director of Centre for Genocide Studies and Prof Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka Imtiaz Ahmed, Prof of International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Syed Mansoob Murshed and Executive Director of Centre for Peace and Justice of Brac University, Bangladesh Manzoor Hasan will address at the conclave in various sessions.
The aim of the conclave is to bring justice and accountability to the centre of the Rohingya crisis.
There will be three main themes of the international conclave - atrocity, accountability and justice, according to organisers.
A wave of violence and the subsequent displacement of 83,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh from Myanmar's Northern Rakhine State in October 2016 foreshadowed the atrocities that escalated in 2017, when over 700,000 more people were displaced.
While the overwhelming scale and severity of violence suffered by the Rohingya people has led to increased global recognition of the need for an international justice process, the Rohingya issue does not exist in isolation, organisers said.
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