Rohingya survivor: Myanmar government “wanted to punish me for telling the truth.”
Editor’s Note: Jamalida, a Rohingya survivor, begins our Genocide Awareness Month focus on new testimony collections in the Visual History Archive. Her testimony and others will be featured in an upcoming special CNN initiative to highlight Rohingya testimony and experiences on their digital platforms.
From a camp in Bangladesh, Rohingya refugee Jamalida squarely faces the camera and recounts a horrific sequence of events that beset the 27-year-old mother of two when she first went public about her persecution at the hands of the Myanmar military.
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A Rohingya refugee’s account of her last days at home
The Rohingya are a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority who have lived in Myanmar for hundreds of years but were effectively stripped of their citizenship by the Myanmar government (then known as Burma) and made stateless in 1982.
A campaign of genocidal violence that began in August 2017 has pushed some 650,000 ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh, where they live in what is now the largest refugee camp in the world.
Kathryn Brackney Lecture Summary
Kathryn Brackney, the 2017-2018 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies, gave a public lecture on the research she conducted during her month in residence at the Center.
Mélanie Péron Lecture Summary
On March 15, Mélanie Péron from the French department at the University of Pennsylvania delivered a lecture on the research she conducted during her fellowship at the Center.
Jennie Burnet Lecture Summary
"Good Amidst Evil: Rescue During the Rwandan Genocide"
Jennie Burnet (Georgia State University)
Murder of 85-year-old Holocaust survivor in Paris underscores the loneliness of the Jewish community in the face of rising antisemitism
Mireille Knoll managed to survive the Nazis during the Holocaust, but antisemitism is ancient and tenacious, and its tentacles finally caught up with her last week at her home in Paris.
The 85-year-old Knoll was stabbed 11 times and burned after attackers – a neighbor and a homeless man – tried to set her apartment ablaze. The men, both in their 20s, were later arrested for a crime that is being investigated as an antisemitic attack.
“She’s a Jew, she must have money,” said one attacker to the other, according to Gérard Collomb, the interior minister of France.