Category: NEWS

The latest news and reports on Southeast Asia, from FORSEA Board Members and special guest writers.


Myanmar’s Democrats Soldiering On while Asian Neighbours and Putin’s Russia Arm the Murderous Coup Regime

FORSEA is bringing you a small collection of analyses which Myanmar dissidents and researchers themselves have written in both English and Burmese languages. 

/ May 21, 2023

ASEAN Leaders’ Statement on the Recent Attack on a Convoy of the AHA Centre and ASEAN Monitoring Team in Myanmar

ASEAN leaders' voice deep concern with ongoing violence in Myanmar and call for the immediate cessation of all forms of violence and the use of force to create a conducive environment for the safe and timely delivery of humanitarian assistance and inclusive national dialogues.

/ May 13, 2023

The Political Significance of Myanmar Public’s Refusal to Hold the Water Festival: How the Coup Military Regime Lost Its Base, the Ethnic Bama Buddhist Society

The society-wide refusal to celebrate the most popular Water Festival/Myanmar New Year is like the electorate, voting with their cultural deeds against the six-decades-old mass-murderous military.

/ April 18, 2023

FORSEA Spring Media Roundup

Read about UN agencies as embodiments of “the banality of evil”; China’s damning pragmatism in Myanmar, and Myanmar people’s resistance and social revolution.

/ April 12, 2023

As early as December 2022, the coup leader Min Aung Hlaing was warned by his security chiefs that the military-sponsored elections will trigger waves of violence across Myanmar

What emerges from this official document marked “SECRET” is a deeply troubling picture of a state, in the slow-motion process of a collapse.

/ March 29, 2023

Bureaucratic Despair at the United Nations Human Rights Council, but Hope, Love and Strength amongst Myanmar’s Resistance Communities

Listen Mr. Human Rights Commissioner: Hope is NOT rare among us Myanmar revolutionaries and our supporters.

/ March 9, 2023

Myanmar Military’s Acts of Terrorism from the Sky & Savage Beheadings on the Ground

Under Min Aung Hlaing’s genocidal commandership, Myanmar Armed Forces are morphing into a terrorist organization in full view of the world at large. The question now for Myanmar – and the pro-democratic world – to ask themselves is a variation of Lenin’s “What needs to be done?”

/ March 6, 2023

Trouble in No Man’s Land

The events leading up to the destruction of the Rohingya camp in No Man's Land and the role of Bangladesh in it.

/ February 2, 2023

The Execution of 4 Activists should Strengthen Myanmar People’s Resolve & Unite their Resistance against the Genocidal Military Junta

Their lost lives this weekend should unify us. Their barbaric executions should instil a much-needed ethos of camaraderie – which calls for basic respect, appreciation and mutual support. It is way past time that every Myanmar that wants to rid the country of the genocidal regime of Min Aung Hlaing unite.  We must make sure that they did not die, in vain.

/ July 26, 2022

Reassessment of Bilateral and Multilateral relations with the UN Member State of Myanmar Must Take Place

FORSEA's Dr Maung Zarni calls for the reassessment of bilateral and multilateral relations with the UN Member state of Myanmar, in the hands of the genocide perpetrators, and urges the international community of democracies to provide Myanmar resistance with arms and other support. 

/ March 22, 2022