Tag: Rohingya

Taking Genocide Personally: “I chose my humanity above my tribal identity”

FORSEA Co-founder Maung Zarni, who is a UK-exiled Myanmar Buddhist, reflects on his native country’s unfinished genocide of Rohingya and offers his informed opinion on what the future holds for both Rohingya and Myanmar

/ September 1, 2026

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)*

/ August 3, 2026

The Rohingya’s hope of survival turns into a petition for “removal”

A petition calling for their removal highlights how a stateless people remains caught between conflict, migration, and political frustration.

/ July 4, 2026

Killed Before They Die: Myanmar’s Persecuted Rohingyas and Perennial Forced Migration Crisis at Sea

Rohingya people are forced to choose between genocidal persecution at home or risking death at sea. Many end up doing both.

/ May 22, 2026

Newcastle Upon Tyne: The first city to erect a genocide memorial monument for Myanmar’s Rohingya survivors

Forgetting is a crime against memory. The city of Newcastle in the UK does not forget Myanmar's genocide of Rohingya and pledges to support their quest for justice.

/ April 14, 2026

Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire rallied N. Irish support for Iranian, Palestinian & Rohingya peoples, while calling attention to the deadly links among oligarchs, wars and inhumanity

“In Christ, there is no killing. There is an alternative to wars and militarism: non-violence. Talk to your enemies. We’ve got to live together in peace as a human family.”

/ March 23, 2026

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.

/ November 11, 2025

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.

/ August 3, 2025

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.

/ July 28, 2025

Webinar: The ongoing genocide against the Rohingya people

This webinar, hosted by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security in partnership with FORSEA (Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia), will bring attention to the ongoing genocide faced by the Rohingya people, the hard work being done by Rohingya youth to keep their community and their identity alive in ever-worsening circumstances, and the prospects for their safe return to a future Myanmar that is free from the Tatmadaw.

/ July 17, 2025