Kaladan News

Dated- August 03, 2003, Sun

 Human Rights Workshop for Arakanese Youths in Bangladesh

Chittagong, August 03: The Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB) Based in Thailand conducted a one-day long training between two youth groups of Rakhine and Rohingya in Bangladesh ended on 1^st August 2003, according to a participant.

Fifteen Participants from two youth Organizatins, Arakan Patriotic Youth Organization and (APYO) and Rohingya Youth Development Forum (RYDF) under the Arakan Education and Welfare Association (AEWA) attended the training, he further addd.

The training was managed in Chittagong in Bangladesh on 1^st of August. One of the youths attending the training program told the Kaladan Press opened up that the training is the first of its kind conducted by HREIB in this part and it titanic opportunity for the attending Burmese youths who have been forced to leave their country for a difficult life in foreign countries. The contents in the training would change their lives because they have learned many unknown facts about the Human Rights, which are frequently committed by the Burmese ruling military regime in Arakan and the whole of Burma.

Another participant said to Kaladan Press that who are living inside Arakan State don’t know what are the Human Rights and even don’t know what are the human Rights they have been committed by the present Burmese ruling military regime.

On the closing session, one of the participants gave a thankful speech to the performer and also the conductor gave thankful speech to the participants, said another participant. ##

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