Understanding ICC Prosecutor’s Arrest Warrant Application for Myanmar Military Leader: Anti-Genocide Perspective
Without the willing executioners and cheerleaders, no state is capable of large-scale crimes against humanity of which genocide is one, from the Nazi genocide to Rwanda, to Indonesia’s CIA-facilitated genocide of ethnic Chinese and communists, to the ongoing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya is no exception.
Let’s join our hands to speed up the demise of the US-led Imperialist World
I can’t possibly tell my 15-year-old that their future will be more peaceful, and the law and the established global governance institutions will offer them protection, let alone Palestinian or Myanmar or Sudanese teenagers who don’t know whether they will live or get blown up before their next meal.
Myanmar looks more like ASEAN’s Syria than a democracy in waiting
Myanmar’s armed conflicts are, tragically, no longer a simple, binary morality tale of Good vs. Evil. Yes, the Tatmadaw remains the country’s largest armed organization and regularly commits atrocities. On their part, the anti-junta adversaries fighting “the Common Enemy” also perpetrate their fair share of atrocities against localized “enemy” ethnic populations.
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.