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).

Genocide as Israel’s “Banality of Evil”: Six-decades after Adolf Eichmann’s Trial in Jerusalem

Since its founding in May 1948, Israel and its leaders have envisaged, bureaucratized and normalized death, destruction, displacement and dispossession of the natives of Palestine.

/ May 31, 2025

Hindutva India deporting Rohingya refugees by throwing them into the Andaman Sea

On 17 May, The New York Times reports that “(t)he United Nations has called for an investigation into “credible reports” that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and expelled them, in some cases by putting them into the Andaman Sea off the shore of the same country they had escaped from, fearing persecution and death.”

/ May 19, 2025

India: Colonizing Kashmir (Since Its Independence in 1947)

On 26 and 27 April, the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (founded in 1947) based in Karachi, hosted an international conference, “Seventy Years After the Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. That is, the struggle(s) against colonialisms/imperialisms.

/ May 9, 2025

The Good and the Bad Genocides: Palestine and Myanmar

This week, Pakistan’s oldest think tank, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, is hosting a conference “Seventy Years after Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. FORSEA co-founder will be among the anti-colonialist scholars, state officials and activists who will honour and keep alive the struggle against all forms of imperialist domination, control, exploitation and repression.

/ April 25, 2025

Earthquake-hit, war-devastated Myanmar needs a lasting humanitarian ceasefire and the establishment of Myanmar Fund for Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction

FORSEA’s Dr Maung Zarni calls for the establishment of Myanmar Earthquake Relief Fund out of the $1 billion of Myanmar government assets in the US frozen by the then President Joe Biden in response to the February 2021 coup.

/ April 3, 2025

With US backing, Israel has already set in motion de facto annexation of lands in the West Bank

The de facto annexation by ethnic cleansing is the direction in which Israel is moving not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, after 57-years of its savage occupation of Palestine.

/ February 27, 2025

Against Donald Trump’s Intent to Turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East”: Palestinian Resisters Dissect Israel’s Illegal Occupation and Washington’s Criminal Patronage

US President Donald Trump’s 4 Feb. official announcement to deport 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza signals his intent to commit a war crime under international law and amounts to the violation of the Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention regarding the Occupying Power’s legal obligations.

/ February 7, 2025

Amid their liberation struggle, Arakan Army (AA) of Myanmar tout Israel as their role model while breaching International Court of Justice Provisional Measures Order #1

Myanmar’s future remains extremely bleak as the Arakan Army perpetrates international crimes while the rest of the anti-junta armed resistance organizations look the other way.

/ February 5, 2025