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The Rohingya in Between Life and Death: A Case of “Subhuman”

Nasir Uddin, Professor of Anthropology at Chittagong University, will deliver a lecture, The Rohingya in between Life and Death: A Case of “Subhuman.”

The Rohingya, an ethno-linguistic and religious minority of Myanmar known as the most persecuted people in the world declared by the United Nations, recently underwent an unprecedented atrocity including indiscriminate killing, random rapes and massive burning of houses and properties perpetrated by Myanmar security forces and vigilantes in the name of clearance operation. A three-member Independent Facts Finding Commission appointed by the United Nations came up with some critical figures in August 2018 that the brutal military crackdown in 2017 triggered an influx of 725,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh, more than 10,000 were killed on the ground in the first two months, hundreds of girls and women were ganged raped, and around 392 villages were partially or totally destroyed. Now Bangladesh hosts about 1.3 million Rohingyas including old and new arrivals in Ukhia and Teknaf refugee camps where they are “struggling for existence” as Myanmar does not recognize them as citizens and Bangladesh is not ready to accept them even as refugees. The intensity of brutality against the Rohingya people in Myanmar was so extreme that the UN Human Rights Council termed it as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and many others called it “genocide.” The narratives of the Rohingya who went through terrible experiences now living in refugee camps in Bangladesh reveal the horrible stories about how they were dealt with as if they are lesser than human beings what Uddin frames as “subhuman life.” The voices of the victims illuminate as if the Rohingya live in between life and death. This talk presents the first-hand narratives of the Rohingya refugees unfolding the atrocious living conditions of the Rohingya lives in the broader spectrum of the intricate relations of stateless, vulnerability, and refugeehood in the world.











When: Wed., Feb. 6, 2019 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The New School
66 W. 12th St.
212-229-5108
Price: Free
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Nasir Uddin, Professor of Anthropology at Chittagong University, will deliver a lecture, The Rohingya in between Life and Death: A Case of “Subhuman.”

The Rohingya, an ethno-linguistic and religious minority of Myanmar known as the most persecuted people in the world declared by the United Nations, recently underwent an unprecedented atrocity including indiscriminate killing, random rapes and massive burning of houses and properties perpetrated by Myanmar security forces and vigilantes in the name of clearance operation. A three-member Independent Facts Finding Commission appointed by the United Nations came up with some critical figures in August 2018 that the brutal military crackdown in 2017 triggered an influx of 725,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh, more than 10,000 were killed on the ground in the first two months, hundreds of girls and women were ganged raped, and around 392 villages were partially or totally destroyed. Now Bangladesh hosts about 1.3 million Rohingyas including old and new arrivals in Ukhia and Teknaf refugee camps where they are “struggling for existence” as Myanmar does not recognize them as citizens and Bangladesh is not ready to accept them even as refugees. The intensity of brutality against the Rohingya people in Myanmar was so extreme that the UN Human Rights Council termed it as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and many others called it “genocide.” The narratives of the Rohingya who went through terrible experiences now living in refugee camps in Bangladesh reveal the horrible stories about how they were dealt with as if they are lesser than human beings what Uddin frames as “subhuman life.” The voices of the victims illuminate as if the Rohingya live in between life and death. This talk presents the first-hand narratives of the Rohingya refugees unfolding the atrocious living conditions of the Rohingya lives in the broader spectrum of the intricate relations of stateless, vulnerability, and refugeehood in the world.

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