The Oslo Conference to End Myanmar’sSystematic Persecution of Rohingyas

26 May 2015 • Oslo, NorwayThe Norwegian Nobel Institute

Voksenaasen Conference Center (Live Streaming 0900 – 1200 hrs)

INAUGURAL SESSION (0900 – 1100 hrs)Session Chair: Imam Malik Mujahid, Chair, Parliament of the World’s Religions & Burma Task Force USA

Interfaith Prayers for Peace & Reconciliation in Rakhine/Arakan (0900-0910 hrs)And Observance of a Moment of Silence for victims of past and unfolding genocides

Bishop Tor B. Jorgensen (Norway) His Holiness Rev. Zaw Ti Ka (Myanmar)His Holiness Rev. Sein Di Ta (Myanmar)His Holiness Rev. We Thudha (Myanmar)Bishop Rev. Zaw Win Aung (Myanmar)Imam Hamid Ali Farooq (Norway)

Live Music by Solo Kurdish Flutist Kemal Hassanpour

Welcome Remarks Imam Malik Mujahid Conference co-chair (0910 – 0915 hrs)

Rev. Zaw Ti Ka Racism and Violence Are Not the Buddhist Way (0916-0920 hrs)Daw Khin Hla Former Rohingya teacher from Myanmar & refugee: “No Country for Rohing-yas: A Refugee’s Appeal to End Myanmar’s Slow Genocide”: (0920-0930 hrs)

Keynote Address Kjell Magne BondevikFormer Prime Minister of Norway (0930-0955 hrs, including Q and A)Introduction by Åse Sand, Norwegian Burma Committee

Calls to End the Slow Genocide of Rohingyas(pre-recorded) (1021-1029 hrs)George Soros, Founder/Philanthropist, the Open Society Foundations (0955-1000 hrs)Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia and President, Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) (1000 - 1005 hrs) Dr José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate (1996) and former President and former Prime Minister, Timor Leste (1006-1011 hrs)Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (1976) & Irish Peace Activist (1011-1014 hrs) Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Burma’s Slow Genocide of Rohingyas (Sen’s ob-servation, Conference on the Rohingyas, Harvard, Nov 2014) (1014-1020 hrs)Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate (1984) & Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town

Co-organized and/or co-sponsored by Justice for All, Burma Task Force USA; Parliament of the World’s Religions; Refugees International (USA); International State Crime Initiative

(ISCI) Queen Mary University of London; Harvard Global Equality Initiative (HGEI); Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)

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MUSIC FOR PEACE, FREEDOM, COMPASSION AND RECONCILIATION (1030 – 1035 hrs)By Renowned Burmese Dissident Musician & Vocalist Mun Awng (or Mun Aung) With Audun Aagre

A Policy Roundtable (1035-1100, including Q and A)Session Chair: Audun Aagre, Director, Den norske Burmakomité

Myanmar as Norway’s ‘focus’ countryMorten Høglund, The State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NorwayOla Elvestuen, MP for the Liberal Party, Norway

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A Human Rights Conversation (1115 – 1145 hrs including Q and A)Moderated by Maung Zarni, Member, Permanent People’s Tribunal on Sri Lanka (2013) & Co-author (w A. Cowley) “The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya” Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, University of Washington School of Law (Spring 2014)

Tomas Ojea Quintana Former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (2008-2014)Penny Green Professor of Law and Globalization & Director of International State Crime Ini-tiative, Queen Mary University of London, UK

------------------------ Afternoon Venue ----------------------------Voksenaasen Conference Center

(All speakers & participants will be bused from the Nobel Institute to Voksenaasen)

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In Their Own Words: An Update on the Plight of the Rohingyas (1330 – 1430 hrs)Chair: Maung Zarni (8-minutes each & 20 minutes Q and A)

Dr. Wakar Uddin, General Secretary, Arakan Union PartyKyaw Min, Chairman, Democracy and Human Rights PartyKhin Maung Myint, National Democratic Party for DevelopmentWai Wai Nu, Director, Women Peace Network Arakan

Rohingya Perspectives and Policy Advocacy from the Diaspora (1430 – 1530 hrs) (10 minutes each. 20 minutes Q & A)Chair: Marco Mezzera, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Peace building Resource Centre (NOREF)

Nurul Islam, Rohingya lawyer & Chairman, Arakan Rohingya National Organisation UK: Analysis of “the Rohingya Problem”Dr Ambia Perveen, MD, Rohingya pediatrician & lobby member, European Rohingya Council Germany: Myanmar’s Decades-long Persecution of the Rohingya: Public Health Implications Tun Khin, President, Burmese Rohingya Organization UK Is the international community ignoring Myanmar’s genocide of the Rohingyas?

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Co-organized and/or co-sponsored by Justice for All, Burma Task Force USA; Parliament of the World’s Religions; Refugees International (USA); International State Crime Initiative

(ISCI) Queen Mary University of London; Harvard Global Equality Initiative (HGEI); Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)

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Perspectives from Research & NGO Communities (1545-1640 hrs)Chair: Ann Danaiya Usher, Journalist, Development Today, Oslo, Norway: (10 minutes each. 15 minutes Q&A)

Andrea Gittleman, Program Manager, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: “They Want Us All To Go Away”: Early Warning Signs of Genocide in BurmaProfessor Penny Green, Dr Thomas MacManus and Alicia de la Cour Venning International State Crime Initiative, Queen Mary University of LondonFindings from the recent fieldwork on the Rohingya persecutionMatthew Smith, Executive Director, Fortify RightsMyanmar’s Policies of Persecution: Ethnic Cleansing and Crime against HumanityOddny Gumaer, Executive Director, Partners Relief & DevelopmentA humanitarian aid worker’s view on the ground

Policy and Political Perspectives (1640-1725 hrs) (10-minutes each with 15 minutes of Q & A)Session Chair: Espen Skran, Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights

Sarnata Reynolds, Senior Adviser on Human Rights, Refugees International, USAAn International Human Rights Perspective on Rohingya Persecution: Challenges and Oppor-tunities General Azumi (retired), former Chief of Army Malaysia, Former UN Peacekeeper and current Trustee of the Perdana Global Peace Foundation, Malaysia Rohingya Persecutuion: A Policy and Leadership Challenge to the Region (of Southeast Asia)Dr Gianni Tognani, The Secretary General, Permanent People’s Tribunal, Rome, Italy Extra-UN Tribunal Approaches to Dealing with Mass Atrocities

CLOSING WORDS OF SOLIDARITY AND COMPASSION By Eelam Tamils (1725 – 1730 hrs)Prof. Ilangko Balasingam, Tamil Activist & Professor of Medicine, U. of Oslo Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Co-organized and/or co-sponsored by Justice for All, Burma Task Force USA; Parliament of the World’s Religions; Refugees International (USA); International State Crime Initiative

(ISCI) Queen Mary University of London; Harvard Global Equality Initiative (HGEI); Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)

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