Category: NEWS
The latest news and reports on Southeast Asia, from FORSEA Board Members and special guest writers.
Thailand Political Landscape and Trends in 2025: Stagnation, Suppression, and Status Quo
In this succinct overview of the state of affairs in his native Thailand in 2025, Jaran Ditapichai, the famed revolutionary and scholar exiled in France, connects the dots among his country's weakened democratic demands from below, the strengthening conservative forces in Thai society, economy and polity, and the lack of concerns among the Thai public in the international affairs.
Under the Shadow of Violence: Are the Banyamulenge Experiencing a Slow Genocide?
Because of colonial legacies and misrepresentations, members of this community are categorized as “foreigners and invaders”. Targeted by state actors, militias, and local and foreign armed groups, violence against the Banyamulenge has led to forced displacement, destruction of their economy and livelihoods and widespread killings.
Tapan Bose, A renowned documentary filmmaker, rights and peace activist, writer and public intellectual: A Tribute
Despite his fame, impactful and life-long activism, and standing among activists, members of the South Asian intelligentsia and state functionaries, Tapan was such a grounded and down-to-earth person. He had mentored younger generations of activists and rights defenders across South Asia.
Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia (FORSEA) expands its board and scope to work on both regional and global causes of universal human concerns
Northern Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, the famed Malaysia dissident Hishamudin Rais, noted genocide scholar Professor Penny Green of Queen Mary University of London and several other international activists join the FORSEA board.
Action Alert: Free Khurram Parvez, Kashmiri Human Rights Defender
We request you to actively participate in the #FreeKhurramParvez campaign to maximize visibility and international pressure on Indian authorities.
Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar
Natalie Brinham's book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness.
Hindu and Buddhist Prayers Shared in Interfaith Prayer Vigil at the Gaza Border
Reshare of Press Release from Hindus for Human Rights: [Location: Kerem Shalom Crossing, Gaza-Israel Border, August 29, 2024] Hindu and Buddhist prayers were included in the Interfaith Prayer Vigil held today at the Kerem Shalom Crossing, where representatives from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and other faith communities gathered to demand an immediate ceasefire, an arms embargo, and a free Palestine.
Against Genocide
“We Must Make Genocide Unthinkable, like Slave Trade and Slavery”, FORSEA’s Maung Zarni challenged fellow activists & scholars gather at the Kuala Lumpur conference on human life and its value.
FORSEA’s Zarni speaks to ABC Radio on Arakan Army’s genocide of Rohingya and Myanmar’s Civil War
Topics include the fighting across Myanmar; AA's attack on Rohingya and how it became part of the slow-burning genocide.
On BBC World Service Newsday, the renowned Burmese genocide scholar & rights activist sounds Rohingya genocide warning
Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Dr Maung Zarni, the co-author of the 2014 study "The Slow-burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya" told the BBC World Service Newsday Programme on 22 May that the genocidal process is unfolding again in Myanmar's Rakhine state, albeit the principal perpetrators are ultra-nationalist Arakan Army of ethnic Rakhins.