Borders, Divisions and Mixed Migration: Complexity and Dynamics of Myanmar Migrants’ Lives in Chiang Rai, Thailand

It is not rivers or mountain ranges that divide people’s lives, but rather the system and the societies which fail to recognise migrants as human beings (equally entitled to fundamental human rights as host communities).

/ September 29, 2023

Former Political Prisoners from Japan and Myanmar share experiences of interrogation and imprisonment by the genocidal military

Toru Kobuta, the 27-year-old documentary filmmaker from Tokyo, and Ko Aung (57), founding member of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions All Burma Federation of Student Unions ((ABFSU), talked about their ordeals in the hands of Myanmar’s notorious military intelligence agents.

/ September 28, 2023

Decades of Torture, Imprisonment and Executions of Activists and Journalists: Myanmar’s Criminal Junta and the Resistance

FORSEA is resuming its Dialogue Series on Democratic Struggles on its YouTube Channel on Monday 25th September, 2023, with a LIVE discussion with the two former political prisoners.

/ September 23, 2023

(YouTube) Keynote Address by FORSEA Co-founder on Refugee Insecurities, Monash Business School

"In the jargon of the United Nations circles, INGOs, and conventional academics, the term 'statelessness' obfuscates what is, in effect, state-organized, legally justified and popularly 'morally' sanctioned acts and processes of persecution of one or more marked ­and typically vulnerable ­human groups within the artificial 'national' borders."

/ September 9, 2023

Forsea co-founder Dr Maung Zarni on the ASEAN Summit in Jakarta

ASEAN is correct in condemning the Myanmar junta for its sustained and systematic uses of violence against civilians. But Indonesia, as chair, should use its position to officially designate the Myanmar junta as a terrorist organization.

/ September 6, 2023

Genocide & Resistance

Genocide & Resistance Public Event: Thursday 31 August, 6:30pm; Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne CBD

/ August 29, 2023

Refugee insecurities: How nation-states force persecuted minorities to become stateless

Forsea co-founder to speak on how states & their inter-state system, make populations such as Rohingya "stateless": Hybrid Event, Monash University, Melbourne, 31 August, 2023

/ August 29, 2023

Webinar: Arbitrary Detention and other Humanitarian Challenges Faced by Rohingya Refugees

Maung Zarni will join an international group of distinguished human rights researchers and defenders including Rohingya refugee activists from India, Thailand and New Zealand.

/ August 17, 2023

Ejected Spaceship

Poem by Chu May Paing.

/ August 16, 2023

A Veteran Chin Revolutionary from Myanmar recalls His Experience about Myanmar’s historic nationwide uprisings of 8 August 1988 (or 8888)

“If you continue to demonstrate, the soldiers will take care of you. Soldiers never shoot into the air just to scare. They shoot straight. If you keep on making trouble, don’t think that you will get away with it!”

/ August 10, 2023