(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."
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.
Genocide & Resistance
Genocide & Resistance Public Event: Thursday 31 August, 6:30pm; Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne CBD
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
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.
Ejected Spaceship
Poem by Chu May Paing.
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!”
အာဆီယမ်နှင့် သူ့ရဲ့ နှစ်၅၀ကျော် စစ်ပွဲတွေ့နဲ့ လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှုအဆုံးသတ်ဖို့ အရေးနိမ့်ခြင်း။
ဇွန်၁၈၊ ၂၀၂၃။ မောင်ဇာနည်။
Why did the Genocidal Military Regime “Partially Pardon” Aung San Suu Kyi?
FORSEA cofounder M. Zarni dissects the regime's so-called "partial pardon" of #AungSanSuuKyi: confuse #Myanmar resistance, coopt tired NLD leaders, placate @ASEAN & arm-supplier-neighbours (#china #Thailand #India #Singapore) & crush principled resisters.
Bangkok-based “Conspiracy Blogger” Brian Berletic spreads Fake News about FORSEA as “A Tool of US Imperialism” in Southeast Asia
The ex-US Marine turned conspiracy blogger also attacks the “Milk Tea Alliance” and Myanmar's Resistance while defending Cambodia’s Hun Sen and dispensing advice to China and Russia on their arms trade.