Tag: Myanmar
To Engage or Not To Engage with Myanmar’s Criminal Rulers: That Strange Feeling of Déjà Vu in ASEAN-Myanmar Affairs
On Thailand’s red carpeted reception of Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing, FORSEA’s Myanmar co-founder Maung Zarni offers his seasoned perspective.
Former Malaysian FM Dato’ Sri Saifuddin calls on the Anwar Government to address rising concerns regarding the refoulment of Rohingya refugees from Malaysia to Myanmar (ruled by the genocidal military)
*Statement by Dato’ Sri Saifuddin Abdullah, Member of Parliament for Indera Mahkota and former Foreign Minister of Malaysia (3 August 2026)*
Myanmar’s Youth & Rohingyas Die in the Country’s Multifront Conflicts and Ongoing Genocide
Today’s youth in Myanmar, of all ethnicities and faith-based communities, are forced to abandon their dreams and aspirations of a peaceful country where they could chart their own life course. Needless to say, the Rohingya ethnic community that survived the 2016 and 2017 waves of genocidal violence in Western Myanmar continue to fare worst in the country’s un-ending wars and violence.
The False Hope of American Support for Myanmar Democracy vs. Political Realism of Asian Giants: The Two Interviews
Based on his decades of pro-sanctions activism internationally, FORSEA’s Dr Maung Zarni offers a brutally honest reflection on the futile Western dependency of anti-junta movements in his native country.
Two Honest Analyses: The Post-Election Myanmar
Two leading Myanmar exiles, Maung Zarni & Harn Yawnghwe, offer their honest & critical reflections on their war-locked native Myanmar, n Mandarin & Burmese.
Harn Yawnghwe, An Extraordinary Life in Public Service & A Barricade Against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memories | PART 3 & Final
Post-colonial national vision for Myanmar came from a combination of leftist progressive analyses and non-blood-and-soil secular civic nationalism, both of which seek to honour ethnic group equality and right to self-determination.
“What to Know About Myanmar’s ‘So-Called Election’” | TIME
In its 26th January 2026 issue, TIME Magazine takes a comprehensive look at the Myanmar elections that are being patronized and held in three phases. The article has contributions from Maung Zarni, Daw Moe Thuzar, as well as anonymous Myanmar experts based inside the country.
Harn Yawnghwe, An Extraordinary Life in Public Service & A Barricade Against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory
FORSEA’s Maung Zarni tells a story of a remarkable Myanmar exile, (born a Shan prince), who sat on Chairman Mao’s laps in the Forbidden City, and proceeded to became one of the predominantly Buddhist country’s most prominent exiles, guided by his Christian faith. It is properly contextualized within both Myanmar’s exilic politics of 50-years and the failed democratic transition which the February coup in 2021 derailed.
When Outrage Is Selective: Art, Race, and the Limits of (The West’s) Moral Universality
“Why is only some violence deemed boycott worthy?" is the question that must be raised in the face of Supreme Hypocrisy of the West, with its collapsing moral universalism.
FORSEA Co-founder Maung Zarni on Myanmar Junta’s 3-Phased Elections
Myanmar's widely reviled military junta is holding "phased general elections", amidst the ever expanding military and political conflicts triggered by its coup in February 2021.