The death of Old Burma or Myanmar as a Burmese nation-state and the birth of ASEAN’s Syria
Myanmar’s post-independence history since 1948 is a history of conflicts among different ethnic and ideological groupings, and their failures to resolve the differences of interests and visions peacefully. Successive generations of ethnic majority Bama or Burmese political elite, civilian and military, with their typical colonial mindset towards the other groups bear the greatest share of responsibility.
Palestinians’ Liberation Struggle Needs Solidarity: Cambodians Respond with Love & Art
“(Cambodian leaders and people) have spoken out against the hypocrisy of Western governments preaching human rights, international law and the rule-based world order while condoning and even aiding and abetting genocide in Cambodia in 1975-1979 and again today in Palestine.”
“We have a moral obligation to speak out against genocide.” Alex Hinton, a world’s leading anthropologist of genocides, tells FORSEA’s Maung Zarni
FORSEA's dialogue with Professor Alex Hinton of Rutgers U.
“In Christ, there is no killing”: N. Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s Message to the Launch of the Law of the Innocent in Ireland
In this 3-minutes address, Maguire specifically called the world’s attention to the ongoing genocidal violence against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, the Rohingya people of Western Myanmar and the Russian-Ukraine war.
Beyond Palestine, International Law and White Supremacy: A Personal Reflection
Even if the issue is organically tied to you, if you offer a perspective that challenges the White Supremacist World’s prevailing analyses and views, you would very likely find yourself swimming against the currents.
Israel has built a vast Ecosystem of Genocidal Practices in Occupied Palestine
FORSEA's Dr Maung Zarni recently travelled to the Occupied Palestine and the occupying Israel with a N. American delegation of anti-Zionist Rabbis – Rabbis for Ceasefire – and spent nine intense days, witnessing the institutionalised textbook Lemkinian genocide.
Reading Chinese FM Wang Yi’s Meetings with Myanmar Military Leaders
Despite Wang Yi’s carefully worded diplomatic message designed to convey China-Myanmar bilateral relations as “friendship with all Myanmar peoples, the political significance – and the immediate impact – of his official and public meetings for the embattled military cannot be overstated.
Against Genocide
“We Must Make Genocide Unthinkable, like Slave Trade and Slavery”, FORSEA’s Maung Zarni challenged fellow activists & scholars gather at the Kuala Lumpur conference on human life and its value.
The Assassination of Aung San in 1947 also killed the Federalist Democratic Myanmar
Aung San and his post-World War II colleagues hammered out the twin framework for the nature of the post-colonial political state, namely the federalist power-sharing arrangement, which recognized the right of self-determination of ethnic communities, and an inclusive citizenship framework.
Palestinians as “Human Dust”: Israel’s Genocide and Its Anglo-American Imperialist Patrons
Israel has institutionalized a national policy of ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine while progressively depopulating the land with people to establish the Jewish majority state, from its very inception in 1948.