Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
Eighty years after Hiroshima: The American bombs have turned Gaza into Hiroshima 2.0
Israel’s genocidal patron, namely the leaderships of the United States, have shown an utter and complete lack of human empathy, conscience or regard for the post-Hiroshima, post-Holocaust international law, which they helped create.
Digitising Statelessness and Genocide in Palestine and Myanmar
The genocides in Palestine and Myanmar have been facilitated by decades of systematic bureaucratic violence and the misuse of state identification systems, linked to mass atrocities.
Yes, I am a Globalist
We live in a world that is so interdependent that the World Community cannot afford to have large parts, like the United States, turn rogue and attempt to call all the shots, without cooperating and paying their share.
Rohingya and Palestine Genocides: Zarni’s Comparative Analysis
These days whenever I am asked to speak on my own old country’s genocide, which is still ongoing against the Rohingya people, I insist on offering a comparative perspective.
Sweeping Censorship Will-Further Harm Australia’s Academic Reputation and Drive International Students Away: A Statement of Concern from a Burmese Genocide Scholar
If Australian governments and legislatures are seriously concerned about antisemitism, then the most logical and strategic approach would be to work with other UN member states to bring an end to the genocide.
Red- tagging in Australia: Whose Side is the Government On?
There are limits to what can be considered “in confidence”. The rights of citizens should be protected, not traded off for the sake of good relations with a murderous regime.
Genocide as Israel’s “Banality of Evil”: Six-decades after Adolf Eichmann’s Trial in Jerusalem
Since its founding in May 1948, Israel and its leaders have envisaged, bureaucratized and normalized death, destruction, displacement and dispossession of the natives of Palestine.
Do Trump’s Policies Amount to the “Ethnic Cleansing” of America?
We are now only four months into the new administration, but in this short time, it has become clear that Trump’s America is not just a cultural war, but a demographic one as well.
India: Colonizing Kashmir (Since Its Independence in 1947)
On 26 and 27 April, the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (founded in 1947) based in Karachi, hosted an international conference, “Seventy Years After the Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. That is, the struggle(s) against colonialisms/imperialisms.
Fort Apache, Washington D.C.: Race at the Centre of the Effort to Reassert a White America
While the US government domestically circles the wagons, mobilises the cavalry, and urges settlers to take refuge within a metaphorical Fort Apache 2025, it does so internationally as well.