Arakan News Agency
Paris will host an international conference on Friday to highlight the situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
“This conference will discuss one of the worst humanitarian crises facing the world at this time, the crisis of Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingyas,” the French website eventbrite said.
The conference aims to create new opportunities and initiatives within the framework of international responsibility and make political recommendations to protect the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The conference bears the title of “vital solutions”, such as the safe return of the Rohingya Muslims to their ancestral land in western Myanmar, sponsored by the France-Bangladesh Friendship Group and the National Assembly in Paris.
Other prominent figures include Dr. Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist, Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, speaker of the Bangladeshi parliament, Rohingya activist Razia Sultana, researcher at Kaladan (Bangladesh-based non-profit media organization), Daniela Obono, Chairperson of the French-Bengali Friendship Group.
The event, which will last for one day, will be broadcast via Facebook and Twitter directly with simultaneous translations into English and French.
According to UN figures, some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled to Bangladesh, 60 per cent of them children, following a crackdown launched by the security forces on 25 August 2017, which the United Nations and the United States called “ethnic cleansing”.
