The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) will be hosting:

Genocide in Myanmar: the Annihilation of the Rohingya

Tuesday 27th October 2015 – Saturday 31st October 2015

Rohingya photography exhibition open daily from 11.00 – 19.30 (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday until 21.00) between Tuesday 27th October – Saturday 31st October 2015

ISCI Report Launch + Panel Discussion

Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar

Thursday 29th October, 18.30 – 20.00

Our second event will launch the ground-breaking report Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar, written by ISCI scholars: Professor Penny Green, Dr Thomas McManus, and Alicia de la Cour Venning. The report provides compelling evidence of a coordinated, State-led plan of genocide against the Rohingya. The report is based on ISCI scholars’ unprecedented systematic field research in Myanmar. The launch of the report will be accompanied by a panel discussion with:

• Penny Green, ISCI Director, Professor of Law and Globalisation, Queen Mary University of London
• Tomás Ojea Quintana, Former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar
• Tun Khin, President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK and human rights activist
• Sarnata Reynolds, Senior Advisor on Human Rights at Refugees International

Background

ISCI is hosting a series of events and talks with the purpose of raising the profile of the marginalised Rohingya. The crisis shows no signs of abating, and the international community’s response remains woefully inadequate.

The Rohingya have been forced to flee the region in the tens of thousands, via dangerous sea routes, during which they experience severe physical and psychological abuse by human traffickers. The mass exodus of Rohingya is a direct result of the violence and systematic policies of persecution implemented by the Myanmar state against them. ISCI argues that the Myanmar state’s historic and ongoing persecution of the Rohingya amounts to genocide. The severe violence, discrimination, and destitution the Rohingya experience on a daily basis in Myanmar means that many feel as though they have no option but to flee.