Rohingya Refugee panel chief to deliver talks in AMU

AGRA: Ali Johar, who heads the Rohingya Refugee committee in Delhi, will speak on the miseries of Rohingya Muslims in

AMU campus

on Tuesday.

Besides sharing his own experiences of being a Rohingya Muslim and the circumstances he had to move from there, Johar will also share the plight of Rohingya Muslim women living in Delhi. He is also the president of Rohingya Literacy Programme, which strives to ensure quality education and women empowerment of the refugee community in Delhi.

According to information, when Johar first arrived in India, he worked as a labourer on construction sites for about six months, but then managed to finish school in Delhi with the help of the UNHCR. Now he's studying to earn a bachelor's degree from the University of Delhi, and he intends to become a lawyer, to fight for his people.

Ali Jauhar, who recently participated in Rohingya protest in Delhi, had said that the Myanmar government is headed by a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, but violence continues there; human rights are being violated. "International organisations maintain that 1,000 people are feared dead, but we do not know if these estimates are true. The Indian government should speak out against the genocide there. If they send us back, the government will kill us within a few months, if not by guns then by stopping access to healthcare, education and other basic amenities."

Meanwhile, social activist Maria Alam Umar in Aligarh has written a letter to Secretary General of the United Nation in which she has appealed to reconsider a recent Indian government decision to relocate Rohingya refugees from existing camps back to Myanmar.

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