Mathematics 207
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
South Asia Institute
Department of Anthropology
For the last 40 years, Rohingyas of Northern Arakan/Rakhine State of Myanmar (formerly Burma), have been subjected to what Amartya Sen called a “slow genocide.” Since August 26, over 607,000 Rohingyas have sought refuge in Bangladesh after having fled Myanmar’s campaign of murder, arson and sexual violence, the latest of 5 waves of state-sponsored terror in the region. Today there are more Rohingyas outside of their birthplace than inside it. Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine is honored to host a panel discussion on the topic of the Rohingya crisis and its global context with Maung Zarni, a Buddhist native of Burma and genocide scholar and human rights activist, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University Professor in the humanities and luminary in the field of postcolonial and feminist studies.
