Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
To Engage or Not To Engage with Myanmar’s Criminal Rulers: That Strange Feeling of Déjà Vu in ASEAN-Myanmar Affairs
On Thailand’s red carpeted reception of Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing, FORSEA’s Myanmar co-founder Maung Zarni offers his seasoned perspective.
The Rohingya’s hope of survival turns into a petition for “removal”
A petition calling for their removal highlights how a stateless people remains caught between conflict, migration, and political frustration.
Myanmar’s Youth & Rohingyas Die in the Country’s Multifront Conflicts and Ongoing Genocide
Today’s youth in Myanmar, of all ethnicities and faith-based communities, are forced to abandon their dreams and aspirations of a peaceful country where they could chart their own life course. Needless to say, the Rohingya ethnic community that survived the 2016 and 2017 waves of genocidal violence in Western Myanmar continue to fare worst in the country’s un-ending wars and violence.
The False Hope of American Support for Myanmar Democracy vs. Political Realism of Asian Giants: The Two Interviews
Based on his decades of pro-sanctions activism internationally, FORSEA’s Dr Maung Zarni offers a brutally honest reflection on the futile Western dependency of anti-junta movements in his native country.
Scholar-Activist Group, FORSEA, Condemns the joint US-Israel Destruction of Iran’s Reservoirs as an Act of Genocide
Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia or FORSEA, a network of scholars and activists with roots in or concern for Southeast Asia unequivocally condemns the joint US-Israel attack on the civilian infrastructure, specifically the two reservoirs in Bamani district in Southern Iran.
VHP-linked Hindu Temple in Manchester Lists Event “Sponsored by Bajrangdal”
An email from the Gita Bhavan Hindu Temple brings far-right Hindu organising in the UK into question.
Killed Before They Die: Myanmar’s Persecuted Rohingyas and Perennial Forced Migration Crisis at Sea
Rohingya people are forced to choose between genocidal persecution at home or risking death at sea. Many end up doing both.
End Europe’s Resurgent Militarism and Israel’s Genocidal Regime
Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, Dr John Reuwer of Doctors against Genocide, and Bisan Owda of Gaza Call for Peace, Humanity and Harmony.
Two Honest Analyses: The Post-Election Myanmar
Two leading Myanmar exiles, Maung Zarni & Harn Yawnghwe, offer their honest & critical reflections on their war-locked native Myanmar, n Mandarin & Burmese.
US-Iran ceasefire isn’t justice
FORSEA Co-founder welcomes the Pakistan-brokered ceasefire while stressing genocidal Israel's role as a primary engine of pains, sufferings, instability & global economic crisis.