{"id":101074,"date":"2017-11-06T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=101074"},"modified":"2017-11-01T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:33:53","slug":"myanmars-ethnic-cleansing-of-rohingyas-and-the-indifference-of-aung-san-suu-kyi-and-her-western-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/11\/myanmars-ethnic-cleansing-of-rohingyas-and-the-indifference-of-aung-san-suu-kyi-and-her-western-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar&#8217;s &#8220;Ethnic Cleansing&#8221; of Rohingyas and the Indifference of Aung San Suu Kyi and Her Western Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>30 Oct 2017 &#8211; <em>Feb 2006-dated Confidential Dispatch from Bangladesh High Commission in Myanmar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/myanmars-rohingyas-ambassador-letter.pdf\" >Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 90%; margin: 5%; height: 550px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/myanmars-rohingyas-ambassador-letter.pdf\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zarni.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-100581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zarni-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>A Buddhist humanist from Burma, Maung Zarni is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a><em>, <\/em><em>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 \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0 His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian <em>and<\/em> the Times<em>. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas<em> (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide<em>, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims<em> (Brown World Affairs Journal, forthcoming). He 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 &#8220;Cultivation of Harmony&#8221; award from the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions (2015).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maungzarni.net\/2017\/10\/myanmars-ethnic-cleansing-of-rohingyas.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 maungzarni.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 Oct 2017 &#8211; Feb 2006-dated Confidential Dispatch from Bangladesh High Commission in Myanmar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}