{"id":112440,"date":"2018-06-04T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=112440"},"modified":"2018-06-03T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T11:02:47","slug":"burmese-human-rights-activist-maung-zarni-amnesty-international-has-blood-on-its-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/06\/burmese-human-rights-activist-maung-zarni-amnesty-international-has-blood-on-its-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Burmese Human Rights Activist Maung Zarni: &#8216;Amnesty International Has Blood on Its Hands&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>31 May 2018 &#8211; <\/em>We speak to Maung Zarni, a human rights campaigner, academic, and co-author of <em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingya<\/em> one week after Amnesty International published a report detailing a massacre carried out by Rohingya militants last August in Myanmar&#8217;s Rakhine state, where nearly 100 Hindus were killed. Zarni vocally criticizes Amnesty, saying the report whips up anti-Rohingya sentiment, not just in Myanmar but across Southeast Asia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XCAr08EI8wc<br \/>\n<em>A Buddhist humanist from Burma, Maung Zarni is <\/em><em>a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 May 2018 &#8211; We speak to Maung Zarni, a human rights campaigner and academic, one week after Amnesty International published a report detailing a massacre carried out by Rohingya militants where nearly 100 Hindus were killed. Zarni vocally criticizes Amnesty, saying the report whips up anti-Rohingya sentiment, not just in Myanmar but across Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112440","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=112440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}