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Hindu and Buddhist Prayers Shared in Interfaith Prayer Vigil at the Gaza Border

Reshare of Press Release from Hindus for Human Rights: [Location: Kerem Shalom Crossing, Gaza-Israel Border, August 29, 2024] Hindu and Buddhist prayers were included in the Interfaith Prayer Vigil held today at the Kerem Shalom Crossing, where representatives from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and other faith communities gathered to demand an immediate ceasefire, an arms embargo, and a free Palestine.

/ August 30, 2024

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Dr Mahathir Mohammad, former prime minister of Malaysia, condemns the United States of America for its continuing direct involvement in, and profiting from, Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza and settlerist violence in all the Occupied Territories of Palestine.

/ August 21, 2024

Myanmar’s Rohingya People: A Documented History, Identity and Presence

While there are multiple inter-communal tensions and attacks among Myanmar’s ethnic communities, there is no other case where a group’s ancestral history and identity have been singled out for sustained and vicious assault in the same way Rohingya people have been.

/ June 8, 2024

FORSEA’s Zarni speaks to ABC Radio on Arakan Army’s genocide of Rohingya and Myanmar’s Civil War

Topics include the fighting across Myanmar; AA's attack on Rohingya and how it became part of the slow-burning genocide.

/ May 26, 2024
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On BBC World Service Newsday, the renowned Burmese genocide scholar & rights activist sounds Rohingya genocide warning

Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Dr Maung Zarni, the co-author of the 2014 study "The Slow-burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya" told the BBC World Service Newsday Programme on 22 May that the genocidal process is unfolding again in Myanmar's Rakhine state, albeit the principal perpetrators are ultra-nationalist Arakan Army of ethnic Rakhins.

/ May 23, 2024

Activists Launch “RISE FOR RAFAH” Global Boycott Campaign

We are witnessing the final stages of GENOCIDE taking place in Rafah. We call upon people of conscience worldwide to conduct a global strike in solidarity with the people of Gaza and demand an immediate ceasefire.

/ May 9, 2024

FORSEA-linked events in London and Bristol: On UK / Myanmar Trade Union Solidarity & Rohingya-Palestinian Solidarity

Though a SEA-rooted scholar-activist network, FORSEA continues to lend its voice of solidarity to the Palestinian struggle for liberation from the White Man's collective genocide in the colonially Occupied Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as Myanmar's trade union and other resistance movements against the genocidal Burmese military dictatorship.

/ April 19, 2024
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Northern Irish Nobel Laureate Nominates Burmese Activist for 2024 Peace Prize

Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia (FORSEA) and the Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) jointly announced Maguire’s nomination, based on Zarni’s “impactful and tireless activism for peace and harmony among human communities over three decades”

/ April 16, 2024

Angela Davis’s special message of solidarity

A global YouTube rally in protest of the defunding UN Aid to Palestinian people.

/ February 3, 2024

How Fascism & Nazism influenced Hindu Nationalism

There has always been speculation about connections between European fascism and early Hindu nationalism, but a recent book provides solid evidence for the first time.

/ December 14, 2023