Canadian CMHR curator Jeremy is coming to Dhaka today
Dr. Jeremy Melvin Meron is coming to Dhaka today on a seven-day visit. He is Curator of Holocaust and Genocide at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights-CMHR. News from The Business Standard.
His visit is to review and accept the application for the recognition of the 1971 genocide. The Bangladesh High Commission in Ottawa has given this information in a press release on Monday.
In the notification, the High Commission said that CMHR's Holocaust and Genocide Curator will visit Dhaka from February 6 to 12. Jeremy Melvin Meron.
CMHR is currently reviewing the Genocide Recognition Application and as part of this process Dr. Jeremy will visit the places where the massacre took place in and around Dhaka in 1971.
At the same time, he will meet the family members of those killed in the 1971 genocide and the survivors of the genocide.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR)
He will also meet senior foreign ministry officials and policy makers and other national experts on genocide issues.
The Bangladesh High Commission in Ottawa says that if the application for recognition of the genocide is accepted, the CMHR will arrange for permanent display of documents and evidence related to the genocide in the museum.
At the same time, after the application is accepted, the year of birth of independent Bangladesh and the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be permanently displayed in the museum's ``time stream''.
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