PROGRAM OUTLINE
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Part I

Time	Description
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Greetings in pre-function lobby. Sign in/registration for conference
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Pre conference presentation by Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh. Display Gallery by Liberation War Museum.
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Welcome Address by: - Dr. Dawood Farahi, President, Kean University - Dr. Kristie Reilly, Vice President & Dean of Graduate Studies - Honorable Excellency Akramul Qader, Ambassador of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh to the United States - Dr. Henry Kaplowitz, Director, Human Rights Institute, Kean University
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM	Documentary (Movie) Presentation

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Break. Follow Usher's Direction for Dining.

Part II

Time	Description
Panel I 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	Eye witness story/survivors accounts of sufferings
Panel II 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	- Panel Discussion - Sufferings - Panel Discussion - Targets - Panel Discussion – Atrocities

 

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Coffee/Tea Break. Follow Usher's Direction for Dining.

Part III: Round Table: Constructive Responses

Time	Description
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	- Task I: Characterizing the accounts of 1971 in terms of prosecutable crimes
5:30 PM	- Closing

Panel Description

Welcome addresses by

Dr. Dawood Farahi, President, Kean University
H.E. Mr. Akramul Qader, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to the United States

Panel I: Eye-witness accounts of the events by Survivors & Liberators

Detail: Graphic descriptions of various atrocities faced by the survivors and family members of the victims.

Panel II: Sufferings, Atrocities, & Targets

 

Suffering:

Detail: Experiences associated with the harm and threats of harm suffered by the people of then East Pakistan in 1971

Panelists: Shariar Kabir, Dr. M.A. Hasan, Dr. Shelley Feldman.

Atrocities:

Detail: Deprivations of human rights committed by the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan against Bengalis and Sectarian Violence and murder of intellectuals.

Panelists:   Dr. M. A. Hasan, Shariar Kabir, Dr. A.B.M Nasir

Targets: 

Detail: Operation Searchlight, Anti-Bengali racism. The role of Bengali nationalists against minorities and the effect upon the Biharis and Hindus and the new community of Bangladesh.

Panelists: Anis Ahmed, Mr. Faruqe Chowdhury, Dr. Zia Uddin Ahmed, Dr. Suhail Islam

Panel III: Roundtable:  Constructive Response

Detail: Legal Reponses, Alternatives & Memorialization

Panelists:  Prof. Roger Clark, David Matas, Prof Winston Nagan, Prof. Roza Pati.  Prof Ved Nanda, Shelley Feldman