Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
On Democracy Now!: A Tale of Two Ongoing Genocides in Israel and Myanmar
Over the decades since its founding in 1948, Israel has succeeded in establishing a vast ecosystem of very elaborate, inventive and evolving genocidal methods. In a very clear breach of the Genocide Convention, Israel has subjected different sub-populations of Palestinian peoples to this system of depopulating historic Palestine with the singular purpose of making all occupied territories Jewish Majority.
Beyond Palestine, International Law and White Supremacy: A Personal Reflection
Even if the issue is organically tied to you, if you offer a perspective that challenges the White Supremacist World’s prevailing analyses and views, you would very likely find yourself swimming against the currents.
Israel has built a vast Ecosystem of Genocidal Practices in Occupied Palestine
FORSEA's Dr Maung Zarni recently travelled to the Occupied Palestine and the occupying Israel with a N. American delegation of anti-Zionist Rabbis – Rabbis for Ceasefire – and spent nine intense days, witnessing the institutionalised textbook Lemkinian genocide.
HYPOCRISY
Dr Mahathir Mohammad, former prime minister of Malaysia, condemns the United States of America for its continuing direct involvement in, and profiting from, Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza and settlerist violence in all the Occupied Territories of Palestine.
Reading Chinese FM Wang Yi’s Meetings with Myanmar Military Leaders
Despite Wang Yi’s carefully worded diplomatic message designed to convey China-Myanmar bilateral relations as “friendship with all Myanmar peoples, the political significance – and the immediate impact – of his official and public meetings for the embattled military cannot be overstated.
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.
The Assassination of Aung San in 1947 also killed the Federalist Democratic Myanmar
Aung San and his post-World War II colleagues hammered out the twin framework for the nature of the post-colonial political state, namely the federalist power-sharing arrangement, which recognized the right of self-determination of ethnic communities, and an inclusive citizenship framework.
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.