THE EIGHT STAGES OF GENOCIDE ARE APPLICABLE FOR THE ROHINGYA Abid Bahar Professor Stanton a genocide expert in USA found the Rohingya in their eighth stage of genocide — beginning from classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organisation, polarization, preparation, extermination and to the denial. ‘The first stage of genocide is classification, where you classify a whole group of people as somehow outside the citizenship of the country,’ said Stanton. ‘One of the things we’ve learned about genocide is it’s a process, not an event... And these stages are ones to take very seriously, he said. On December 14, the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, hosted the first international conference in the United States on the plight of the Rohingya people of Myanmar — ‘Stop Genocide and Restore Rohingyas’ Citizenship Rights in Myanmar’. It was jointly hosted by the Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association and the Rohingya Concern International in collaboration with the ethnic studies programme at the university. The conference opened with a welcome speech from BRAFA’s chairman Shaukhat Kyaw Soe Aung (MSK Jilani) and Dr Chia Vang of the ethnic studies programme at the university. The programme was conducted by Mohiuddin Yosuf, president of the RCI and chief coordinator of the conference organising committee. Amongst others, the speakers included Professor Greg Stanton of the Genocide Watch (George Mason University), Nurul Islam of ARNO (UK), Sheikh Ziad Hamdan of Islamic Society of Milwaukee, Professor Abid Bahar from Montreal (Canada), and Dr Nora Rowley of the Vulnerable Population Health and Well-Being, and Dr. Habib Siddiqui. In his speech, Professor Stanton discussed the obvious similarities faced by the Rohingyas of Myanmar with those of Tutsis in Rwanda.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 07:40:05 +0000
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