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).

US-Iran ceasefire isn’t justice

FORSEA Co-founder welcomes the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire while stressing genocidal Israel's role as a primary engine of pains, sufferings, instability & global economic crisis.

/ April 9, 2026

“Kill any of the natives found in their way”

The White Man’s Law was an ass in Australia in 1799, and so it was in Burma in the 1890’s, and so It has been in Palestine since the 1930’s.

/ March 30, 2026

Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire rallied N. Irish support for Iranian, Palestinian & Rohingya peoples, while calling attention to the deadly links among oligarchs, wars and inhumanity

“In Christ, there is no killing. There is an alternative to wars and militarism: non-violence. Talk to your enemies. We’ve got to live together in peace as a human family.”

/ March 23, 2026

FORSEA co-founder and Myanmar scholar speaks out on the Hitlerite War of Aggression against Iran by US-ISRAEL

Maung Zarni speaks on the Hitlerite War of Aggression against Iran by US-ISRAEL.

/ March 13, 2026

Harn Yawnghwe, An Extraordinary Life in Public Service & A Barricade Against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memories | PART 3 & Final

Post-colonial national vision for Myanmar came from a combination of leftist progressive analyses and non-blood-and-soil secular civic nationalism, both of which seek to honour ethnic group equality and right to self-determination.

/ February 21, 2026

Harn Yawnghwe, An Extraordinary Life in Public Service & A Barricade Against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memories | PART 2

For half-a-century, Harn Yawnghwe has been pushing for federalism based on 'ethnic group equality and inclusive society' as the only twofold viable solution for peace and reconciliation in his native Myanmar.

/ January 30, 2026

Harn Yawnghwe, An Extraordinary Life in Public Service & A Barricade Against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory

FORSEA’s Maung Zarni tells a story of a remarkable Myanmar exile, (born a Shan prince), who sat on Chairman Mao’s laps in the Forbidden City, and proceeded to became one of the predominantly Buddhist country’s most prominent exiles, guided by his Christian faith. It is properly contextualized within both Myanmar’s exilic politics of 50-years and the failed democratic transition which the February coup in 2021 derailed.

/ January 19, 2026

FORSEA Co-founder Maung Zarni on Myanmar Junta’s 3-Phased Elections

Myanmar's widely reviled military junta is holding "phased general elections", amidst the ever expanding military and political conflicts triggered by its coup in February 2021.

/ December 31, 2025

Humanity is Under the Rubble of 500 years old Racial Capitalism, Unipolar or Multipolar

Whatever the name of the state (or even states), US or BRICS, the logic of Capital has locked the policy options of these political entities and, consequently, the fate of humans in perpetual misery while ever increasing – not reversing – the ecological threat to our collective existence as a species.

/ December 7, 2025