Dear Family and Friends,
Today was another day that was filled with laws related to refugees. We started the day with a loaded lecture on Seeking International protection. It made me wonder how the students of law would sit in a lecture that was so full of Law. It was so pregnant with ideas that many of us could not really understand what was really happening for the first fifteen minutes. I have hence recorded the lecture for my own understanding.
The next session was a workshop, the tile was Seeking durable solutions. We were
given a case study, divided in to groups and asked to discuss a question. It was the modified case of the Rwandan conflict, the genocide and the refugee situation. The questions that followed were in four categories. 1. The admission processes of refugees in the country, 2. The Situation at the boarder, 3. Protection in the country of Asylum and 4, the possibilities of return.
I took the fourth point and discussed the issues with Dr Sathyanarayanan, the one who used to work with OfERR India. He now works for the UN. As we saw that the entire genocide could have been prevented int he first place. Secondly the refugees would have been treated in a better way to avoid further conflict. Thirdly the country of Asylum did not explore more options to deal with the burden of refugees. this resulted in the refugees and the militants living the camps. The camps became breeding ground for the Militia and eventually led to self destruction.
In all that i was doing I was constantly thinking how this situation was averted in our own refugee camps in India. I was not sure weather to term it the cleverness of the refugees or the brilliance of intelligence services. Even amidst the trainings that the Indian army was giving to the militants to fight the hegemonic regime in SL there were not many notable incidents of uprising or armed rebels in the Camps. In the group discussion i got a chance to talk about the efforts of Refugee organizations to take care of real refugees in India.
Today was another day that was filled with laws related to refugees. We started the day with a loaded lecture on Seeking International protection. It made me wonder how the students of law would sit in a lecture that was so full of Law. It was so pregnant with ideas that many of us could not really understand what was really happening for the first fifteen minutes. I have hence recorded the lecture for my own understanding.
The next session was a workshop, the tile was Seeking durable solutions. We were
given a case study, divided in to groups and asked to discuss a question. It was the modified case of the Rwandan conflict, the genocide and the refugee situation. The questions that followed were in four categories. 1. The admission processes of refugees in the country, 2. The Situation at the boarder, 3. Protection in the country of Asylum and 4, the possibilities of return.I took the fourth point and discussed the issues with Dr Sathyanarayanan, the one who used to work with OfERR India. He now works for the UN. As we saw that the entire genocide could have been prevented int he first place. Secondly the refugees would have been treated in a better way to avoid further conflict. Thirdly the country of Asylum did not explore more options to deal with the burden of refugees. this resulted in the refugees and the militants living the camps. The camps became breeding ground for the Militia and eventually led to self destruction.
In all that i was doing I was constantly thinking how this situation was averted in our own refugee camps in India. I was not sure weather to term it the cleverness of the refugees or the brilliance of intelligence services. Even amidst the trainings that the Indian army was giving to the militants to fight the hegemonic regime in SL there were not many notable incidents of uprising or armed rebels in the Camps. In the group discussion i got a chance to talk about the efforts of Refugee organizations to take care of real refugees in India.
through out the day i was constantly thinking of OfERR and the work with the Human Rights project. I also thought that we had made real progress with situation of refugees. Not only that there has been a success with containing the refugees from the militant activity, there has been significant progress in the field of refugee protection and rights as well. Though there have been a lot of problems in the process there has been a significant progress.
after the class i spent some quality time with Ashel and Anushka who is celebrating her B'day. She has really grown and looks like a photocopy of my sister.
The highlight then came. We went out to an Indian restaurant, it was called Mirch Masala. First we peeped into a numbr of other restaurants looked at their menus, compared them and the price
s and finally came to this place because it was seemingly ok on both the areas.We wanted to order a biriyani but we ordered a coupleof Naans and rotis with an interesting Side dish called Madras Mutton Vindaloo. I was reminded of Roslind's vindaloo. We waited for 10 min. As we were getting hungry we smelt the Naans and rotis and also the vindaloo. While we were creatively engaging ourselves, the food arrived. i picked a piece of garlic naan and dipped it in the Madras Vindaloo and flung it in my mouth. The Naan was too good, the madras vindaloo was also good. It was so good that i would eat it once and enjoy it twice. I tried to mix a lime or salt but it was so hot that i was having tears down my cheek.
We did have a great time and then came home. I have two presentations tomorrow. So I should go to my bed to avoid any further delay since i have to look and do good tomorrow.
Please standby for my next message, i will surely tell you if i enjoyed it twice.
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