Documentary on climate tribunal
The premier show of “Climate Tribunal'', a video documentary on the life and livelihoods of climate-hit people and their cry for justice, was held at British Council in the city yesterday.
Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihood (CSRL) supported the documentary and organised the premier show jointly with British Council.
In November, the CSRL staged a shadow climate tribunal in the city where a five member jury panels heard the complaints of petitioners about how hard the victims' life become due to the climate change.
The petitioners including Suriya Vanu, Mamtaz Begum, Siddqur Rahman, Bareq Dafadar described how the Bay has been changing it's character and how devastating cyclones frequently rip through the coast nowadays.
All the victims mentioned that they had lost someone of their family, who went fishing in the Bay.
Hearing the complaints, the jury panel held the developed countries guilty of climate change and spoke in favour of compensations for the victims by the industrialised nations.
In the documentary, US-born videographer Ami Vitale and broadcast journalist Shahed Alam recorded the entire climate tribunal process. They depicted how the climate change is taking its heavy toll on the lives and livelihoods of the poor coastal people of Bangladesh.
Gareth Price Jones, country director of Oxfam GB; Farid Hossain, president of Bangladesh chapter of Commonwealth Journalists Association; Ziaul Hoque Mukta; Murray Keeler, acting director of the British Council; filmmaker Tarek Masud; and Everest hero Musa Ibrahim also talked at the programme.
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