Banner: Ko Tinmaung (aka Raes Ahmad) with his Canadian colleagues and his return flight home to Toronto, from Istanbul.

 After having been abducted from his boat Umut, he endured 96 hours of abuses and beatings by the IOF.  He recorded this 3 minute message of Palestine solidarity from Istanbul before boarding his return flight home to Toronto.  A comprehensive interview with www.Forsea.co will be out in due course.   “Free Palestine!  Free Rohingya!”

 

Posted by Maung Zarni

Dr Maung Zarni is a scholar, educator and human rights activist with 30-years of involvement in Burmese political affairs, Zarni has been denounced as an “enemy of the State” for his opposition to the Myanmar genocide. He is the co-author (with Natalie Brinham) of the pioneering study, "The Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas" (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, Spring 2014) and "Reworking the Colonial-Era Indian Peril: Myanmar’s State-Directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims" (The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Fall/Winter 2017/18).

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