Articles by Dr. Maung Zarni
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Why Do Myanmar Public Hate Rohingya So Much?
Dr. Maung Zarni | Japan National Press Club – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
25 Oct 2018 – During the Q and A at the National Press Club of Japan, the country’s ruling class venue, a Japanese reporter asked me this question in English. She had been to Burma and said she found difficult to understand the palpable and pervasive hatred that Burmese public display towards Rohingyas.
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Five Concrete Measures Can End Rohingya Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Five steps can be taken towards achieving justice, repatriation and the rebuilding of Rohingya communities in Myanmar.
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A Plea to TMS Readers for Peace Journalism-Peace by Peaceful Means
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
In most cases of realities that involve blood, invasion, genocides, war crimes, exploitation, systematic acts of state propaganda, “all sides” and “balance” in journalism, are not simply acts of moral cowardice, but the total absence of intellectual substance. Peace, nonviolence, social justice, are TMS ideologies rooted on basic human rights and needs, non negotiable principles. Think about it and Please Act making your financial contribution TODAY! Thank you.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi’s Lies, Distortions Hinder International Accountability
Dr. Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
24 Jun 2018 – Myanmar’s leader is at it again: using her Office’s Facebook, she is peddling lies that are easily exposed. Her growing list of provable distortions and denials must not go unchallenged.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Suu Kyi Actively Attempting to Manipulate UN
Dr. Maung Zarni – Anadolu Post,
20 Jun 2018
16 Jun 2018 – No political regime, civilian or military, that commissions international crimes against its own national minorities should be given the benefit of the doubt when its smooth-talking Oxford-educated politician says it is on the path towards incremental liberalization and constructive resolution of the crisis confronting a people whose existence she herself denies.
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Australia and Singapore Prime Ministers Help Whitewash Myanmar Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2018
20 Mar 2018 – I just returned from Paris where I had a quite intense 2-day meeting with other fellow activists deeply concerned with the plight of the Rohingyas, a small number of Rohingyas who have resettled there, as well as a very progressive deputee de Paris at the Assemble Nationale and her assistant… “Intense public attention makes it difficult to solve” (Myanmar genocide), so says Singapore Prime Minister.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s True Colors Shine!
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCED Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
25 Jan 2018 – We are witnessing nothing short of the emergence of a cold-hearted and immoral Burmese politician. Suu Kyi’s evident priority to turn the killing fields of Western Burma (stretching over 100 KM in length) into a lucrative opportunity for the local cronies who financially support her and her party is utterly morally repugnant.
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From Bangladesh: Bearing Witness to My Country’s Genocide & Meeting the Survivors
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
My family and I spent a week in Bangladesh visiting Rohingya survivors of Myanmar genocide.
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Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
What is fundamentally wrong with the “communal violence” argument in the paper below, ‘Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar,’ by Nick Cheesman.
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Dr. Maung Zarni, DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
As Aung San Suu Kyi prepares to take over the reins of the new government [Burma/Myanmar], the international community – of diplomats, world leaders, journalists, human rights researchers and world citizens – needs to press the Burmese leader to reflect critically on her stances on the Rohingya.
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2-Minute Speech Dedicated to Rohingya Victims of Burma/Myanmar’s Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was the presenter on behalf of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 Oct 2015. Both Dr. Zarni and Mrs. Maguire are members of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.
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Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Human rights harm Asean harmony.
Profits unite, human rights divide.
Thank you, Mr. Orwell.
“War is Peace”, no more.
Burma/Myanmar: Did the Government Incite the Racial Violence Targeting the Rohingya?
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Truthful reports by various inquiry commissions and missions can and will go a long way towards restoring a glimmer of hope in the world’s most persecuted minority community, if the investigators are able to get to the bottom of the recent large-scale racial violence, which left nearly 100,000 both homeless and hopeless.
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Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2011
In his Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Karl Marx wrote: ‘The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.’ Such an assessment is only half-right when it comes to Burma’s internal conflicts, of which ethnicity is of equal importance to class.
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