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).

Black Poet-Scholar El Jones Reads Her Poetry of Resisters’ Solidarity at the Ramallah Cultural Palace, The West Bank

For Palestinians, “history” began in November 1917, not 7 October 2023, as the White Supremacist genocidal ruling classes and cultural and intellectual elite of the West prefer.

/ January 21, 2025

World Renowned Scholar of Education Michael Apple on Fifty Years of Scholarship-Activism

A member of the Jewish Voice for Peace and a Jewish American scholar, the UW-Madison sociologist condemns Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.

/ January 5, 2025

“What’s wrong with Rights?” The West and its cherry-picking of universal human rights. An interview with Jack Healey, “Mr Human Rights” in the Cold War era

“Human rights as something which every mother would want for their children” – Jack Healey, former Executive Director of Amnesty International/USA.

/ January 1, 2025

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.

/ November 28, 2024

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.

/ November 20, 2024

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.

/ November 6, 2024

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