Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
Cambodia Half-Century After Genocide: A Letter from Phnom Penh
"In addition to landmine removal, Cambodia is fast becoming a world leader in the equally dangerous art of reconciliation after a genocidal conflict."
Myanmar’s Rohingya People: A Documented History, Identity and Presence
While there are multiple inter-communal tensions and attacks among Myanmar’s ethnic communities, there is no other case where a group’s ancestral history and identity have been singled out for sustained and vicious assault in the same way Rohingya people have been.
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.
For Muslims in the Global South, American hostility began in 1979
if anyone wonders why America has backed off so far (and beyond) from responding to humanitarian catastrophes presented as security operations, against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Rohingya in Myanmar, and the Palestinians in Gaza, then they do not understand the structure of the contemporary world, as it has grown up since 1979.
Palestinians as “Human Dust”: Israel’s Genocide and Its Anglo-American Imperialist Patrons
Israel has institutionalized a national policy of ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine while progressively depopulating the land with people to establish the Jewish majority state, from its very inception in 1948.
Beyond Palestine: A Burmese Activist Salutes Anti-Genocide US Campus Protestors
The American students I have known and had the privilege of working with in my 17 years in the United States were the best, idealistic, down-to-earth, eager to learn or share, principled and compassionate. They were the complete antithesis of the military-industrial-media-university complex, run by mass-murderous serial criminals, Democrat or Republican, that fully embrace their own delusional sense of being “exceptional”, that is, SUPERIOR, to the rest of the human...
Making the World a Better Place: Restitution and Restoration
This has been a hard essay to write, first because of the vast variety and accelerating pace of activity throughout the world demanding ‘action’; second because the project of restoration has yet to be paid the attention it requires; third because of the inexorable and unremitting degradation of the planet’s physical sub-systems as the metabolic rift deepens and becomes more complex; fourth because of the need to contain the scope...
British-Burmese Trade Union Solidarity Event. But we cannot NOT talk about Palestine.
The Holocaust and other acts of what Chomsky called "the great European pastimes" – mass killings in peace time or wars – gave us "international criminal and humanitarian law". Now the Great Law Creators are free to bin them – just like the British who invented slavery and the slave trade, just so they could claim "we abolished them"!
While inviting foreign investment in Rakhine, Arakan Army Leadership displays deep-seated genocidal racism towards Rohingya in Western Myanmar
The extreme racism that Rakhine nationalists have, over the generations, displayed – their sense of racial and religious superiority vis-à-vis Rakhine state’s largest minority population of Rohingya, largely Muslims, their dogged attempts to deny and destroy Rohingya identity – appears to be their Achilles' heel.
Myanmar NUG and Ethnic Revolutionary Organizations need to walk their talk of gender – and ethnic – equality
The adviser to the Karen National Union, Naw May Oo Mutraw, critically challenges the simplistic portrayal of, and self-serving perception, regarding the all-too-obvious exclusively male revolutionary leadership of Myanmar resistance organizations.