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Intelligence Squared

No Peace: The Story of the Rohingya in Myanmar

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

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4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Rohingya people of Myanmar have been persecuted for decades. The worst period of violence flared up in August 2017, when almost 700,000 Rohingya were forced to leave Myanmar after a large-scale military operation. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was in power at the time. Today very few members of this Muslim minority remain in the country. Instead they live mostly in Bangladesh’s refugee camps, or, precariously, in Malaysia, India, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. What does it mean for an entire people to be living in exile? Journalist Kaamil Ahmed has spent years trying to answer that question, which forms the themes of his new book, I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers, while trying to reveal the extraordinary resilience that has helped these scattered communities survive. Our host for this discussion is Carl Miller, author and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm senior producer, Connor Boyle.

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On the show today, Camille Ahmed.

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The journalist and author discusses his experiences reporting on the genocidal ethnic persecution

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of the Rohingya people in my on-mark.

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What does it mean for an entire people to be living in exile?

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That's the question being asked by Camille Ahmed's recent book, I Feel No Peace.

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He joined Carl Miller recently to talk about it.

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Carl is research director of the Center for the Analysis of Social Media, a demos and an author too.

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Here's Carl with more.

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Connor, thank you everyone.

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