All posts by Maung Zarni

Dr Maung Zarni is a scholar, educator and human rights activist with 30-years of involvement in Burmese political affairs, Zarni has been denounced as an “enemy of the State” for his opposition to the Myanmar genocide. He is the co-author (with Natalie Brinham) of the pioneering study, "The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas" (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, Spring 2014) and "Reworking the Colonial-Era Indian Peril: Myanmar’s State-Directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims" (The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Fall/Winter 2017/18).

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.

/ October 19, 2024

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.”

/ October 5, 2024

“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.   

/ September 25, 2024

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.

/ September 12, 2024

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.

/ September 8, 2024

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.

/ August 15, 2024

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.

/ August 1, 2024

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.

/ July 30, 2024

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.

/ May 9, 2024