The Case against “Justice” in British Courts
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 6 Jul 2026
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service
12 June 2026, the protest outside Woolich Crown Court (photo by Zarni)
The idea of justice in the Empire was a cruel and poor taste joke for the Burmese of Orwell’s years in my native Myanmar one hundred years ago. Law here retains its founding inhumanity towards Other.
29 Jun 2026 – Today’s horrendous events are the direct outcomes of policy and political decisions made at the highest levels of governments in the three rogue or criminal states of Israel, USA and UK – in that order of policy influence. They have been taking place at a pace faster than my fingers can type my pained, rage-filled and researched words.
Listen or read: The plot against Palestine Action
As an anti-genocide activist and a student of genocides, the two events that have impacted me deeply of late are the Appeal Court ruling on 15 June that the non-violence Palestine Action is a “terrorist” organization and 13 June sentencing of Filton 4, the activists who engaged in non-violence opposition to the British state’s genocide connection – as opposed to “terrorist connection” – as if they were terrorists.
This month on the British soil, I bore witness to genocide-indifferent judges behaving like Orwellian colonialist thieves, defending “property” & the American poodle Raj, just like my ancestors who loathed the British colonial rule in Burma one hundred years ago did.
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A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the TRANSCEND Media Service Editorial Committee, of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center – Cambodia. Zarni is the co-founder of FORSEA, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for Free Rohingya Coalition, and an adviser to the European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge. Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian and the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, Essays on Myanmar Genocide.
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Tags: Activism, Fake Justice, Justice, Official Lies and Narratives, Palestine Action, UK
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