By: Ornella Marquez Jimenez
Members of the Canadian Human Rights International Organization (CHRIO), prescide by Jonathan Whiteside and Mario Guilombo, CHRIO founders, and Mohammed Mominul Haque, CHRIO Asia Director, explained this Sunday the violation and human rights abuses that everyday are committed in Bangladesh.
The event took place in York Civic Centre in Toronto. This is the third event organized by CHRIO to exposes the crisis in this country, where the goverment arbitrarity arrests and detained critics, and had instituted heavy censorship. Bangladesh is home to over 164 Million people.
The Rohingya crisis was one of the point in the discussion: In August 2017, violence erupted in Rakhine State in Myanmar, targeting the Rohingya people, a Muslim minority.
At least 90 percent of this population in Myanmar’s Rakhine state fled to Bangladesh last year to escape a campaign of violence conducted by the Myanmar army and described by the United Nations as “textbook ethnic cleansing”. Since August 2017, some 700.000 people crossed the border, many of them victims of extreme violence, burned villages, murders and rape.
Mahmuda Begum, executive Director of CHRIO Mission in Bangladesh; Sirajul Chowdhury, CEO FPPF; and Nurul Islam offered their testimonies about the human rights violation in this country.