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By Mizzima, Published on April 17, 2024 The renowned Northern Irish peace activist Mairead Corrigan Maguire, herself a recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, has nominated the UK-exiled Burmese human rights activist and genocide scholar Dr Maung Zarni for the prestigious prize. On the eve of the Burmese traditional New Year this week, the Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia (FORSEA) and the Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) jointly announced Maguire’s nomination, based on Zarni’s “impactful and tireless activism for peace and harmony among human communities over three decades”. Maguire’s nomination letter to the Nobel committee highlighted Zarni’s activism both for

Maung Zarni is a fellow with the (Genocide) Documentation Center of Cambodia and co-founder of the Forces of Renewal in Southeast Asia.  We are witnessing horrific violence being perpetrated against civilians including war refugees, women, children and elderly people in Myanmar, Ukraine, Israel and Israel-occupied Gaza by primarily state actors.  The founding members of the United Nations either look on, or, worse still, serve as enablers behind perpetrating states.   What we don’t see on the social media platforms and conventional TV monitors is the silent demolition of international law – the Genocide Convention no less – the Security Council

By Radio Islam International | August 1, 2023

By TRT World | August 1, 2023Myanmar’s military junta has reduced the prison sentence for its former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, from 33 years to 27. Maung Zarni, co-founder of Forces Renewal for Southeast Asia, explains

By 3CR Radical Radio | May 26, 2023 Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics.  Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Chloe DS Maung Zarni, burmese scholar and activist with over three decades of experience in international politics & activists joined the program to reflect on the ongoing uprising in Myanmar against the millitary dictatorship and the nature of the Rohingya genocide and why it should have been opposed prior to the uprising.  Note: Maung Zarni will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Ecosocialism 2023: A World Beyond

By Shafiur Rahman | Substack | May 7, 2023 Trump’s account has been reinstated despite inciting hate & violence. In contrast, Dr. Zarni, a genocide whistleblower and campaigner for Rohingya genocide survivors, has been suspended. Twitter’s  suspension of Dr Maung Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist and scholar, has  raised concerns about freedom of expression on social media platforms. Dr Zarni’s suspension was based on his tweet drawing a comparison between the coronation of King Charles III and Nazi spectacles. The tweet highlighted the commonality of multiple genocides and other international crimes committed by both the British Empire and Hitler’s

By Maung Zarni | Published by Democratic Voice of Burma | October 11, 2022 While the world’s attention is fixated on the escalating NATO-Russia proxy war taking place on Ukraine’s soil, with its nuclear saber-rattling and domino effect on the world’s economy, on Burma’s western front, the decades-old triangular conflict deserves some serious attention as the deeply troubled country’s civil war has widened to engulf external powers, including the neighbouring country of Bangladesh. This appears to be a case wherein one of Burma’s key actors, namely the Arakan Army (AA) – with its Buddhist Rakhine nationalist base – is replicating

“Myanmar coup group leaders need to be designated TERRORISTS who use the national armed forces to mass-slaughter unarmed peaceful citizens – protesters, non-Muslim ethnic communities and Rohingya.” Al Jazeera English interviews Dr. Maung Zarni, Burmese Academic and Human Rights Activist.

In the first episode of the 2021 Free Rohingya Coalition Genocide Podcast Series, Gregory Stanton and Daniel Feierstein, the past two Presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, shared their thoughts on the perennial question of INTENT in the Genocide Convention, and discuss The Gambia vs Myanmar case at the International Court of Justice. Hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni