Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Fazlous Satter. I am an author, human rights, human security activist, and researcher from Bangladesh, currently working with the Centre for Human Rights, Development & Human Security (CHRDHS) as its founding Executive Director. I am also working as an Independent Research Consultant focusing on human rights, geopolitics, natural resources based conflict, and other human security-related issues. I have two published books.
Being a researcher I have numbers of research on human rights and human security in particularly on emerging as well as prevailing domestic conflicts, regional geopolitics, border and enclave people, police reform, indigenous land rights, forest conflicts, vulnerabilities of ethnic minority women as well as on land administration, and its challenges.
My newly published book is titled ” Understanding the World’s Longest Civil War: Colonial State Formations, Geopolitics, Conflict over Natural Resources, and the Genocide. ” which is now available at amazon.
This book is an overview of over seven decades-long civil war in Burma and its both internal and external actors, root causes as well as complex dynamics including global and regional geopolitics centering Burma, conflict over access and control of rich natural resources and also the politics of illicit drugs.
One of my research publication titled “Struggle for Survival: A Study on the Legal Status of the Mandi Peoples’ Land Rights in Modhupur Forest Area” is enlisted in the libraries of some of the world-famous universities that include Yale, Colombia, U-Chicago, UC Berkeley, Illinois, Minnesota, Heidelberg, Max Plank Institute, Iowa, etc.
Being an activist I have also participated in several international human rights training programs that include 23rd Annual International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) conducted by the International Centre for Human Rights Education (EQUITAS); which at that time known as the Canadian Human Rights Foundation (CHRF) and 16th Geneva Advance Training Course (GTC) on International Human Rights Law and Diplomacy organized by the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR).
As a part of my online activism, I am also working as an administrator of a few social media groups on human rights, environmental justice, and geopolitics.
Besides activism and research, I was also involved with both print and electronic media of Bangladesh as a journalist for a long while.
Being a journalist I was involved with various national level media that includes Radio Metro-Wave (Head of News), Weekly Jai Jai Din (Political analyst & Regular Columnist), Jai Jai Din Protidin (Senior Reporter), Daily Ajker Kagoj (Sub-Editor), Dainik Desh Bangla (Senior Reporter), Dainik Lal Sabuj (Sub-Editor), Fortnightly ANANYA (Reporter), etc.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
RESOURCES AND THE GENOCIDE”.
The idea of writing this book came from the immense shock that I have gone through as a human being after knowing about the Rohingya genocide of 2017 perpetrated by the Burmese national armed forces Tatmadaw.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I think like writing style, each author has also different writing habits in which she/ he is accustomed to. In my case, it usually takes time to get full concentration to start writing. But when it is back I can spend sleepless days and nights in non-stop writing.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
My life is shaped by the influence of numerous authors and their books in a various phase that includes Karl Max, Friedrich Engles, Vladimir Lenin, Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, Noam Chomsky, Amartya Sen, Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, Boris Polevoy, Alex Haley, Vandana Shiva, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, Krishan Chander, Serajul Islam Choudhury and many more.
What are you working on now?
Currently, I am working on the political ramification of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Concerning book promotion, I have no experience. My previous book promotion was handled by the concerned publisher in their traditional way.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Please, don’t forget the truth and your intellectual responsibility to expose lies.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Read, read, and read as much as possible before writing.
What are you reading now?
My current reading is mainly focused on various research publications, reports, journals, and articles concerning the political ramification of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on common people.
What’s next for you as a writer?
As a writer, I am now focused on the next publication. I think in the life of an author, there is nothing called guaranteed. But I would like to read and write until my death to pursue my passion for uncovering the truth and exposed the lies to see a sustainable peace where people can live without fear with dignity and integrity.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
1.The Mother- by Maxim Gorky
2.The Story of a Real Man-by Boris Polevoy
3.Family Happiness-Leo Tolstoy
4.In the Light of What We Know-by Zia Haider Rahman
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