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).

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

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