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).

Zionism as parasitic ideology-tool against both native Palestinians and the world at large

Israel as the ultimately expansive embodiment of Zionism as Jewish Supremacy is a parasitical operation, that manipulates and kills even its imperialist hosts (both institutions and cultures)

/ September 18, 2026

USA: The Reviled Empire, With No Sovereignty

The United States had until recently been the most influential world actor since the end of the World War II, but it has proven to possess no real sovereignty over wars or peace.

/ September 8, 2026

On Myanmar’s For-Ever-Civil War and Un-Finished Slow-Burning Rohingya Genocide

FORSEA co-founder and Burmese activist Maung Zarni offers his brutally honest assessment of where his native country historically was, its present state of affairs and what future awaits.

/ August 20, 2026

To Engage or Not To Engage with Myanmar’s Criminal Rulers: That Strange Feeling of Déjà Vu in ASEAN-Myanmar Affairs

On Thailand’s red carpeted reception of Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing, FORSEA’s Myanmar co-founder Maung Zarni offers his seasoned perspective.

/ August 12, 2026

Myanmar’s Youth & Rohingyas Die in the Country’s Multifront Conflicts and Ongoing Genocide

Today’s youth in Myanmar, of all ethnicities and faith-based communities, are forced to abandon their dreams and aspirations of a peaceful country where they could chart their own life course. Needless to say, the Rohingya ethnic community that survived the 2016 and 2017 waves of genocidal violence in Western Myanmar continue to fare worst in the country’s un-ending wars and violence.

/ July 3, 2026

The False Hope of American Support for Myanmar Democracy vs. Political Realism of Asian Giants: The Two Interviews

Based on his decades of pro-sanctions activism internationally, FORSEA’s Dr Maung Zarni offers a brutally honest reflection on the futile Western dependency of anti-junta movements in his native country.

/ June 18, 2026

A child of genocide-survivor parents, this Rohingya refugee in Canada believes in and acts on Never Again!

Rohingya human rights activist, former refugee and veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces detailed the abuses he was subjected to by Israel’s elite naval commandos and Israeli prison guards, in his 20-minutes recorded interview with FORSEA in Istanbul.

/ May 27, 2026

Greetings from Istanbul: Ko Tinmaung’s 3 minutes recorded message from the airport

Canadian participants abducted by the Israeli occupation return home.

/ May 25, 2026

FORSEA condemns the Israeli regime for hijacking another group of Global Sumud Flottila boats and kidnapping international activists

Ko Tinmaung sent FORSEA the recording a few hours before the Israeli terrorists in uniform boarded his boat Umut about 70 nautical miles past Cyprus.

/ May 20, 2026

A Rohingya refugee joins the Canadian Delegation, aboard Umut, Global Sumud Flotilla

A Rohingya refugee joins the Canadian Delegation, aboard Umut, Global Sumud Flotilla.

/ May 18, 2026