Since October 2016, the Myanmar authorities forced more than 715,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh, causing a humanitarian crisis. The deportation of Rohingya from Myanmar has particularly affected Bangladesh. Second, Shahbazi claims that Rohingya refugees “have brought problems” as “ome drug traffickers have taken advantage of the desperate refugees, using them as couriers of their products.” There is no supporting evidence for this claim in the article, only a statement from the head of Bangladesh’s Department of Narcotics Control, who claimed that working as a “drug mule” was a “major option for a refugee to get to Bangladesh.” Shahbazi asserts that this alleged increase is based on the “dramatic fall of more than 50% in the price,” which is established only by the estimation of a person named Kashif Khan identified as a “Yaba addict” in the article. On, the Nikkei Asian Review published an article by Ammar Shahbazi with the title “Bangladesh drugs gangs exploit Rohingya refugees.” The article made a number of conclusions based on little evidence, then linked them together to produce a sensationalist report that risks provoking an alarmist drug policy response and exposing Rohingya refugees to backlash.įirst, the contributing writer Shahbazi claims that the influx of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh has resulted in the increased availability of methamphetamine pills (commonly known as ‘yaba’). ![]() Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo. If you would like to obtain a copy (unlimited as a PDF from late Jan 2010) please contact us.įor more information see The Incidental Person.Un artículo publicado recientemente en la revista Nikkei Asian Review sobre el tráfico de drogas y los refugiados rohingya en Bangladesh plantea dudas sobre el rigor editorial de la publicación. ![]() The Launch issue is a stamped limited edition of 500 only, with free insert, and is produced by Office of Experiments. THE REDACTOR is a stamped limited edition publication that features an exclusive interview with leading UK secrecy activist, campaigner and journalistic source, Mike Kenner (whose archive is featured in Dark Places) as well as incidental editorials, news and features from our correspondents in the field – Rich Pell (Nature Correspondent – Center for Post Natural History, US), Steve Rowell (US, Real Estate) and visual features by John Latham and Jenny Holzer. The REDACTOR was a manifestation of the commitment of OOE to the legacy of Latham, and the ‘incidental person’, whilst acknowledging the issues raised in the operations of APG and O+I (Members of OOE have had positions on the board of O+I – formerly APG). The commission followed the event The WAGER which was staged there. ![]() (APG’s fluctuating membership would include over the years, among others, Ian Breakwell, Stuart Brisley, Garth Evans, David Hall, Anna Ridley, Rolf and Ros Sachse, as well as industrial and political representatives.) Steveni’s role in negotiating invitations (not commissions) from private corporations, non-profit organizations and governmental bodies was instrumental to APG’s success in placing artists in situations where they would be paid and, more importantly, would enjoy – at least during the placements’ initial feasibility period – complete freedom from any contractual obligation to produce a material outcome (be it an object or a report).”Īntony had worked with members of Office of Experiments whilst both were based at John Lathams Flat Time House between 2007-9. Though the IP was Latham’s own term, it was to find practical application within Artist Placement Group, or APG, the “artist consultancy and research organisation” conceived in 1965 by Barbara Steveni and established a year later with Barry Flanagan, Latham and Jeffrey Shaw. The IP, Latham argued, “may be able, given access to matters of public interest ranging from the national economic, through the environmental and departments of the administration to the ethical in social orientation, to ‘put forward answers to questions we have not yet asked’.”… Diagrammatically, the IP transforms the linear, two-dimensional plane of conflict into a three-dimensional, triangular network that fosters the flow of ideas and the interconnections between individual perspectives. ![]() me” disposition typically adopted to resolve differences. “The British artist John Latham (1921–2006) coined the expression the “Incidental Person” (IP) to qualify an individual who engages in non-art contexts – industry, politics, education – while avoiding the “for/against”, “you vs. THE REDACTOR, was launched for ‘The Incidental Person’ at Apexart 2010 in New York.
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