Tag: genocide
Myanmar’s Youth & Rohingyas Die in the Country’s Multifront Conflicts and Ongoing Genocide
In the post-colonial period (since the country’s independence in 1948), Myanmar has been trapped in a vicious cycle of internal conflicts, with political, commercial, ethnic and religious dimensions.
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.
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.
The Good and the Bad Genocides: Palestine and Myanmar
This week, Pakistan’s oldest think tank, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, is hosting a conference “Seventy Years after Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. FORSEA co-founder will be among the anti-colonialist scholars, state officials and activists who will honour and keep alive the struggle against all forms of imperialist domination, control, exploitation and repression.
Under the Shadow of Violence: Are the Banyamulenge Experiencing a Slow Genocide?
Because of colonial legacies and misrepresentations, members of this community are categorized as “foreigners and invaders”. Targeted by state actors, militias, and local and foreign armed groups, violence against the Banyamulenge has led to forced displacement, destruction of their economy and livelihoods and widespread killings.
Munther Isaac: “Israel is a terrorist entity built on the Palestinian land by ethnic cleansing of the indigenous populations”
In early January, at his theology college in his native Beit Sahour (Shepherd’s Fields), adjacent to Bethlehem, the renowned Palestinian theologian and activist Dr Munther Issac met with a group of solidarity visitors, from six different countries, including FORSEA’s Dr Maung Zarni, and shared his frank thoughts on both the 76-years of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the grave dangers which Israel’s western imperialist patrons pose to humanity at...
Understanding ICC Prosecutor’s Arrest Warrant Application for Myanmar Military Leader: Anti-Genocide Perspective
Without the willing executioners and cheerleaders, no state is capable of large-scale crimes against humanity of which genocide is one, from the Nazi genocide to Rwanda, to Indonesia’s CIA-facilitated genocide of ethnic Chinese and communists, to the ongoing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya is no exception.
Myanmar looks more like ASEAN’s Syria than a democracy in waiting
Myanmar’s armed conflicts are, tragically, no longer a simple, binary morality tale of Good vs. Evil. Yes, the Tatmadaw remains the country’s largest armed organization and regularly commits atrocities. On their part, the anti-junta adversaries fighting “the Common Enemy” also perpetrate their fair share of atrocities against localized “enemy” ethnic populations.
Palestinians’ Liberation Struggle Needs Solidarity: Cambodians Respond with Love & Art
“(Cambodian leaders and people) have spoken out against the hypocrisy of Western governments preaching human rights, international law and the rule-based world order while condoning and even aiding and abetting genocide in Cambodia in 1975-1979 and again today in Palestine.”
“We have a moral obligation to speak out against genocide.” Alex Hinton, a world’s leading anthropologist of genocides, tells FORSEA’s Maung Zarni
FORSEA's dialogue with Professor Alex Hinton of Rutgers U.