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).

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

Why Do People Revolt?: Resistance and/or Uprisings in Indonesia, Nepal, Malaysia, Myanmar and Occupied Palestine Territories

As part of its YouTube LIVE series on dialogues on democratic struggles, FORSEA is hosting a 90-minutes discussion with scholars and activists from their respective native countries on Friday, 19 September, 2025.

/ September 15, 2025

The deafening silence of the ‘Holocaust industry’ on Israel’s war in Gaza

For nearly two years, the world watched in silence as the Jewish state went about massacring thousands of unarmed Palestinians and laying waste to their homeland.

/ September 10, 2025

Israel is hell-bent on dispossessing all Palestinians including Christians of their land: Tales of Accelerated Land Theft in the Holly Land of Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem

“The Tent of Nations continues to live out its mission under occupation—surrounded by settlements, locked gates, flying checkpoints, and daily restrictions that try to suffocate hope. It feels at times like we are in an open-air prison.”

/ August 16, 2025

Myanmar Anti-Junta Opposition Plays with Fire: Dangling Rare Earth Materials before Transactional & Un-Trustworthy Washington

Myanmar’s anti-Junta opposition in the diaspora and their Western supporters are playing with fire when they reportedly dangle before Trump’s transactional administration the prospects of a fire sale of the country’s strategic natural resources for political support.

/ August 14, 2025

Eighty years after Hiroshima: The American bombs have turned Gaza into Hiroshima 2.0

Israel’s genocidal patron, namely the leaderships of the United States, have shown an utter and complete lack of human empathy, conscience or regard for the post-Hiroshima, post-Holocaust international law, which they helped create.

/ August 7, 2025

Gaza Genocide-Complicit States’ “conditional recognition” of Palestine is “elastic words”

Words can’t liberate people under oppression in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, much less end Israel’s mass extermination in Gaza.

/ August 1, 2025

Rohingya and Palestine Genocides: Zarni’s Comparative Analysis

These days whenever I am asked to speak on my own old country’s genocide, which is still ongoing against the Rohingya people, I insist on offering a comparative perspective.

/ July 28, 2025

Sweeping Censorship Will-Further Harm Australia’s Academic Reputation and Drive International Students Away: A Statement of Concern from a Burmese Genocide Scholar

If Australian governments and legislatures are seriously concerned about antisemitism, then the most logical and strategic approach would be to work with other UN member states to bring an end to the genocide.

/ July 20, 2025