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Global solidarity a must to resolve Rohingya crisis

Speakers tell launch of 'Art Against Genocide', a book depicting atrocities in Rakhine state

UNB, Dhaka
Speakers at a programme in the capital yesterday laid importance on forging global solidarity to resolve the protracted Rohingya crisis as the world is not doing enough to ensure their human rights.
They were speaking at the launch of a book titled "Art Against Genocide", published by Cosmos Books in association with Cosmos Foundation, at the main auditorium of the Liberation War Museum.
Speaking at the event as chief guest, Prof Emeritus Anisuzzaman said the United Nations (UN) has failed as a global organisationin resolving the Rohingya crisis.
There is doubt about Myanmar's intention
to take their citizens back with dignity, he said, adding that the international community must come forward in this regard.
Prof Anisuzzaman said the published book will remain as a record as it depict the plights of Rohingyas through the articles and artworks.
Chairman of Cosmos Foundation Enayetullah Khan said art represents mankind's strongest weapon against some of the base instincts that take hold of the human psyche, and to that extent it must always be used in the service of humanity.
"The book is meant as an offering to that end, to use the power of art to alight our loftier ideals, and suppress that which allows terror, genocide and other atrocities to thrive," said Khan, also the founder of the Centre for
Research on Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.
Mentioning that the world and United Nations are not doing enough to solve the crisis, CR Abrar, a professor of international relations at Dhaka University, said the Rohingya issue is not merely a political issue -it is multi-dimensional in nature.
Initiatives like publishing such a book will work to exert pressure on international community, he hoped.
Cosmos Foundation Executive Director Nahar Khan talked about her experience of visiting the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar and said the book has been introduced to
reach out to people to let them know about the humanitarian crisis, not only through mere facts and information but also through art.
Mofidul Hoque, founder and trustee of Liberation War Museum, Asif Munier, former NPO at International Organization for Migration (IOM), also spoke. On the occasion, a photo exhibition was inaugurated on the Rohingya crisis. The exhibition will run for seven days at the Liberation War museum.
The book, edited by Enayetullah Khan, features 29 artworks of 19 Bangladeshi artists including master painter Shahabuddin Ahmed, important articles by distinguished writers such as ex-adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, and 40 photographs depicting the miseries of Rohingya people by photographer Salahuddin Ahmed.
The other artists whose artworks were accommodated in the book include Kalidas Karmakar, Maksuda Iqbal Nipa, Tanbir Sarwar Rana, and Sourav Chowdhury.