The Good and the Bad Genocides: Palestine and Myanmar
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 28 Apr 2025
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service
25 Apr 2025 – This week, Pakistan’s oldest think tank, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, is hosting a conference “Seventy Years after Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. I 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.
In the spring of 1955, Che Guvera and Fidel Castro were reportedly mildly amused when they learned from the Burmese journalists informing them that Rangoon’s western-educated elite learned about the Cuban Revolution from TIME magazine, an influential American propaganda publication which one finds at grocery store check-out counters and street newsstands.
Their successful revolution had just effectively ended the corrupt and repressive local dictatorship in Havana, installed and maintained by the United States’ Sugar Corporation. And they were in Rangoon, staying at the still glamorous British old colonial era Strand Hotel on their way back from the anti-imperialist conference in Indonesia where they met the then Burmese Prime Minister U Nu, a key conference organizer.
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Tags: Genocide, Genocide Convention, Genocide Studies, Israel, Myanmar, Palestine
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