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You can watch it here.

[Professor Mukesh Kapila and Dr. Gregory Stanton changed their time to speak with each other and the event took longer than scheduled.]

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Importance of Accountability: Genocide Prevention and Justice for Victims

Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG) strives to empower and amplify the voices of women, the victims of genocide, and the historically excluded Sudanese. DWAG ultimately aims to enable them to fight for their rights, achieve justice, and to equally participate in the transformation of their society.

To mark International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and conclude our 16 Days of Activism campaign, Darfur Women Action Group will be hosting an online event with two-panel discussions on December 9th from 1:00-3:00 pm EST. 

The first panel will focus on accountability as a genocide prevention mechanism and feature the following notable speakers: 

Ambassador Stephen Rapp (former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues), Ms. Mona Ali Khalil (former UN Senior Legal Officer and founder of MAK LAW), and additional speakers to be confirmed soon. 

The discussion will address effective accountability mechanisms and the present failure of the international community to hold perpetrators responsible, taking Sudan as an example. 

The second panel will focus on strategies for genocide prevention and feature the following distinguished speakers:

Dr. Gregory Stanton (Founder and President of Genocide Watch), Ms. Niemat Ahmadi (Founder and President of DWAG), and additional speakers to be confirmed soon. 

The panel will delve into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on genocide prevention and women empowerment efforts around the world.

Both panels will conclude with each speaker contributing a set of strategic recommendations and answering questions from our audience. The panel discussion will be held via Google Meet and shared on Facebook after the event.

Register to attend the event: https://forms.gle/P6PUiKbbKGuY5jS46

For questions, please email: [email protected]

Please join us as we discuss mechanisms for genocide prevention, women empowerment, and sustainable change in Darfur.

[myrddin-wylt]

I found a handy-dandy resource for anyone who comes across someone who fights like hell to deny genocide committed by whatever country: genocidewatch.

more importantly, it’s also extremely useful for educating and/or updating yourself. the site categorizes genocide into ten stages, and includes three categories of urgency: ‘genocide watch,’ ‘genocide warning,’ and ‘genocide emergency.’ you can look through reports by country, or you can look through the alerts.

of course it’s all horribly fucking depressing but I mean. yup. it sure is! these people do excellent work though. consider throwing a donation their way for their hard work if you’re able.

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Looks like we are on the way.

“Remember thinking ‘What would I do?’ during history classes? What you're doing today is what you would do.”

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The featured documentary “A Hidden Genocide” exposes the severe persecution of the minority group of Rohingyas by the majority group, the Rakhines, in Myanmar. The film narrates how tensions between the two groups have been brewing long before their recent eruption. Through interviews we discover that the Rakhines believe that the Rohingyas are a threat to their Buddhist nation, and therefore they have a right to defend their religion. The Rakhines formed Nationalist parties directed towards controlling the Rohingya populations by restricting their rights to citizenship, controlling their populations, and denying their existence overall.

I was truly taken aback after watching this documentary to see how far country’s government can go while under the mask of defending its nation. Even in the interview with the Rakhine Buddhist monk, who asserts that his religion preaches nonviolence and peace, we see a contradiction in his beliefs as he defends the Rakhines who attack innocent Rohingyas. These influential leaders and governmental officials continue to defend the violence against Rohingyas as a protection of Rakhines culture and religion. These individuals even propose that they believe the Rohingya are deceiving people, who want to undermine their government in order to progress their culture and religion. In reality, from the events shown in the film we can see that the Rakhines are doing to the Rohingyas exactly what they fear the Rohingyas will do to them. It is astounding to see what results from a government who supports the majority group of people, while denying the minority group of people.

There was definitely a heavy bias in the film to the plight of the Rohingyas. Although I agree that the circumstances they are facing are outright horrifying, I don’t think the documentary did a very good job showing both sides. For instance, I noticed many of the interviews in the documentary with the Rohingyas were personal interviews with those affected severely by the Rakhines cruel acts. This was meant to help the audience sympathize with the Rohingyas. However, the interviews with the Rakhines in the film featured only individuals with governmental and leadership positions, perhaps to further emphasize that their beliefs are corrupt. The documentary only briefly mentions the attacks of Rohingyas on the Rakhines, but downplays those attacks. I felt that it would have been better to get a Rakhine civilian’s perspective on the Rohingyas because the government officials interviewed did not have as personal a connection to the conflict as the civilians do. Moreover, this was also a major missed opportunity in the film to educate the audience on more of the Rakhines motives behind their attacks on the Rohingyas. If the documentary covered both sides of the conflict in the same light, then I feel that the audience would be better able to evaluate the issue.

The documentary reminded me a lot of Native Americans encountered in the 1800s. Similar to the Rohingyas, the Native Americans were being denied their existence as a people, and treated as aliens in a nation that is more indigenous to them than it is to any other group. The Native Americans were forced off of their land into isolated areas in Oklahoma, while the Rohingyas were isolated in areas of west Myanmar. Both groups are left unprotected and denied their basic civil rights from their government. The Native Americans were subject to this through the Indian Removal Act that later paved the way for the Trail of Tears. These acts were targeted towards erasing the presence of a group of people that makes these instances truly “hidden genocides”. Both the predicaments of the Native Americans and the Rohingyas illustrate what can occur when a government fails to stand for the equal rights of all of its people.

I believe “never again” can become a reality, but it would be a very long way to go. What is occurring in Myanmar is occurring in so many other parts of of the world. This institutionalized oppression on a group of people takes root in governments that are biased towards the majority. This is why these issues persist because the majority receiving support from the government make it almost impossible for the minority’s voice to be heard. I believe the best way to help this is to raise awareness of this ongoing problem. This documentary was a good place to start because it helped me realize that instances such as genocide really are still occurring. Many people others like me do not know of the horrors that are taking place globally. Raising awareness on these issues would better give these groups suffering from oppression hope of an intervention to free them of the shackles that have been placed on them.

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[Description: a lovely tall black trans woman with glasses and yellow outfit and glasses smiles. Text on photo reads: RIP Aniya Parker. 8th TWOC Murder in 2014] Murder against Trans Women of Color must stop NOW!!! End Racism & Transmisogyny. Show up for Trans women, gnc, people of color! #twoc #translivesmatter #blacktranseverything #tpoc #transpoc By @chernobiko: "In my faith tradition 7 represents completion and I wanted to believe that after the murders of 7 other Trans Women of Color reported since June of this year we were done burying our sisters. Despite the media misgendering Aniya I had been through this enough times to know that the victim would look like me but shocked to find out she was almost half a century in age, having lived years past the life expectancy for TWOC. On Thursday Oct 2nd she was attacked in East Hollywood and gunned down execution style. My condolences to her community and family but her murderers have not been apprehended by police. This isn't just a trans issue, it's a human rights issue. All of our lives matter. #BlackTransRevolution #GenocideWatch #twoccohio #blacktranalsmedia #twocc #OurLivesMatter #TransGriot #StopTransMurders #BlackLivesMatter #redefiningrealness #girlslikeus #lavernecox #mtf #tgirlsrock"