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Kamil Ahmed

Kamil Ahmed

Reporter on the Global Development desk at The Guardian, covering aid, human rights, refugees, and the global south; author of 'I Feel No Peace' about the Rohingya crisis.

Jul 31, 2026

8:07
So tell me a little bit about the research for your book and how you went about it, who you spoke to and what kind of conditions you found them in.
8:19
Going back to the thing about genocide and how many waves there have been, which what fits into like how I approach the book is the ICJ case and a lot of stuff does seem to look at it from the 2017 perspective or from 2016 and 2017.
8:35
That doesn't make sense.
8:37
If you're talking about genocide, you have to be looking at like the structural element of it and the foundations of it and the first big Expulsion of Rohingya happens in 1978.
8:47
The first big military operation happens in 1978.
8:50
More than 100,000 Rohingya are expelled to Bangladesh.
8:54
Bangladesh then sent them back quite forcefully.

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