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.

/ August 21, 2024

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.

/ August 15, 2024

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.

/ August 1, 2024

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.

/ July 30, 2024

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."

/ June 24, 2024

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.

/ June 8, 2024

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.

/ May 26, 2024

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.

/ May 24, 2024
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On BBC World Service Newsday, the renowned Burmese genocide scholar & rights activist sounds Rohingya genocide warning

Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Dr Maung Zarni, the co-author of the 2014 study "The Slow-burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya" told the BBC World Service Newsday Programme on 22 May that the genocidal process is unfolding again in Myanmar's Rakhine state, albeit the principal perpetrators are ultra-nationalist Arakan Army of ethnic Rakhins.

/ May 23, 2024

Rohingya face prospects for genocidal violence again: Buthitaung Township, Rakhine, Western Myanmar

It is evident that the Arakan Army is attempting to forcibly displace Rohingya residents from downtown Buthidaung. This forced relocation must be halted.

/ May 18, 2024