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).

Israel has the right to exist, but not this genocidal, expansionist Israel

Amidst the talk of “the two-state solution”, the United Nations or Nations United Against Evil, must first address the fundamental question: Should this Israel exist, as “the most aggressive, expansionist, overtly racist, Jewish supremacist government in Israel’s history?”

/ February 1, 2024

“Depopulating” Palestine: Israel Through the Bifocal Lens of Hitler and Lemkin

As a human rights campaigner and a student of genocides, in my attempts to understand Israel’s physical destruction of Gaza in particular, and its foundational Zionist policies in Palestine, I find most helpful to turn to Raphael Lemkin’s grounded and multi-faceted conception of genocide and Hitler’s “blood-based” ideas of “race-state” and racialized land.

/ January 20, 2024

Israel Defends Itself at the International Court of Justice: From Genocide Victims to Perpetrators

Israel's legal team, a member of which is a Holocaust survivor and the country's ex-Attorney General, will likely frontload the politico-legal mantra of Israel’s right to “self-defence” .

/ January 11, 2024

Moral and Strategic Consequences of S. Africa’s Case against Israel at the World’s Court

The post-apartheid Republic of South Africa, filing a genocide case against Israel is a significant act pregnant with positive moral consequences while handing the Palestinian liberation struggle an unprecedented strategic weapon.

/ January 5, 2024

“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide” says 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire

Mairead Maguire (79) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in the history of Israel’s founding since May 1948: “Israel cannot build peace on genocide. We have got to find more humane ways to solve our problems.”

/ December 17, 2023

Burn in Hell, Mr. Kissinger. Finally, the Evil Incarnate, if glorified in the circles of States, is dead.

Kissinger, the self-perceived "lone cowboy" who thought he was "never wrong", but who was culpable in genocides, destabilised nations, and left a worldwide trail of corpses and destruction, is dead at 100.

/ November 30, 2023

“One Holocaust Does NOT Justify Another”: Britain’s National March for Palestine and the World’s Moral Majority

Saturday's march which drew Britons from beyond London – thousands took buses or trains from across the UK – is clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world.

/ November 14, 2023

Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement of 2015: A Critical Look at Myanmar Military’s Peace and State Building since 1962

While the country’s largest armed organization – the Tatmadaw as the country’s armed forces is known - did not trigger the initial wave of armed revolts which sprang up following the country’s independence from Britain in 1948, the military’s policies and approaches to legitimate political grievances are most certainly responsible for the subsequent proliferation and prolongation of the armed conflicts.

/ October 7, 2023

Forsea co-founder Dr Maung Zarni on the ASEAN Summit in Jakarta

ASEAN is correct in condemning the Myanmar junta for its sustained and systematic uses of violence against civilians. But Indonesia, as chair, should use its position to officially designate the Myanmar junta as a terrorist organization.

/ September 6, 2023