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pulitzercenter:

The US Holocaust Museum is projecting Pulitzer Center grantee Greg Constantine’s photos of the Rohingya on their exterior walls November 4-8. See the invitation below:

Join us in bearing witness to the suffering of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Burma long considered among the world’s most persecuted peoples. Denied citizenship and rendered stateless by the Burmese government, the 800,000 Rohingya lack basic rights, including the right to work, marry, and travel freely, and routinely suffer severe abuse. Following violent attacks in 2012 that destroyed numerous Rohingya communities, more than 100,000 are now confined to displacement camps and segregated areas where they continue to be subjected to violence including crimes against humanity.

Building-sized images of the Rohingya displaced in Burma and in exile taken by prize-winning photographer Greg Constantine will be projected each evening from November 4 to 8 on the Museum’s exterior walls on 15th Street SW (Raoul Wallenberg Place).

Greg Constantine, Holly Atkinson, and Maung Tun Khin will discuss the current situation of the Rohingya and increasing violence against Muslims elsewhere in Burma.
 
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Registration for the opening program is required.

This exhibition is produced by the Museum in association with FotoWeek DC 2013.

Generous support provided by the National Endowment for Democracy. Additional support provided by the Open Society Foundations and Physicians for Human Rights.

The opening program is made possible by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.

For more information, email genocideprevention@ushmm.org.

To RSVP for the opening program, click here.                                                 

(And don’t forget to check out Constantine’s photos in our ebook “In Search of Home“ on the iBookstore and Amazon!)

Anyone out in D.C. should stop by this exhibit!