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).

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

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

In the post-colonial period (since the country’s independence in 1948), Myanmar has been trapped in a vicious cycle of internal conflicts, with political, commercial, ethnic and religious dimensions.

/ November 11, 2025

Reading “Genocide in Gaza: Voices of Global Conscience” at the British Parliament

The dying Western Civilization (or “The West”) has not learned a thing during its 500-years of failed attempts to subjugate the Global Majority: The elite or rulers may submit, but the people never surrender to the invading colonizers. Palestine will be free.

/ November 9, 2025

To Know Genocide is to Oppose It at Any Cost to Self: Burmese Activist Reflects on the Gaza Tribunal

To know genocide is to confront it in every conceivable way we humanly can: name it, oppose it, help end it and document it for posterity. For it is an affront to every human with a conscience and compassion.

/ October 30, 2025

A View from Istanbul: On the Savagery of the West’s Genocide in Gaza

The unfolding savagery of the collective West in Gaza far exceeds what men in antiquity did to one another or inflicted on respective enemy populations.

/ October 25, 2025

Israel’s Physical and Ecological Destruction of Gaza

Beyond population destruction, the architects of Israel’s genocide in Gaza have evidently made even the environment their target of physical destruction in order to render it “unlivable.”

/ October 21, 2025

For a Free Palestine, Against US-Israel Empire: Italian Voices from Below

Hear some of the voices of Italians who contributed to the nationwide mobilization on 22 September 2025 for a Free Palestine, and against the genocidal Imperialists of the decaying West.

/ September 29, 2025

Decaying Pax Americana, Pakistan-Saudi Security Pact and Emergence of an Anti-Imperialist Order

FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Resistance on YouTube. Watch LIVE on Sunday September 28, 2025: 7-8 am UK; 9-10 am Palestine; 11-12 am Islamabad; and 3-4 pm Tokyo.

/ September 24, 2025

On Palestine’s Anti-Colonial Resistance and Popular Revolts in Indonesia, Nepal, Myanmar and Malaysia

FORSEA Dialogue strives to foster the bond of humanity, especially among the Oppressed, inform the wider public and reach out to those in the world of global privileges and influence.

/ September 21, 2025