{"id":274329,"date":"2024-09-23T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=274329"},"modified":"2024-09-20T06:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:05:23","slug":"standing-at-gaza-border-felt-like-visiting-auschwitz-burmese-genocide-scholar-maung-zarni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/standing-at-gaza-border-felt-like-visiting-auschwitz-burmese-genocide-scholar-maung-zarni\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing at Gaza Border Felt like Visiting Auschwitz: Burmese Genocide Scholar Maung Zarni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>19 Sep 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations is warning about widespread human rights abuses in Burma as the military regime intensifies the killings and arbitrary arrests of tens of thousands of civilians since seizing power in a coup over three years ago. A new report from the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says many of those detained by the Burmese military are children taken from their parents, with dozens of minors dying in custody. \u201cWhat it paints is an extremely disturbing picture of Burma descending into this human rights abyss. If you\u2019re living there, it\u2019s a complete living hell,\u201d says Burmese scholar, dissident and human rights activist Maung Zarni.<\/p>\n<p>He also discusses his recent visit with faith leaders to the West Bank and the border of Gaza, drawing parallels between Burma\u2019s and Israel\u2019s human rights abuses. \u201cIsrael has taken the practices and policies of genocide to a whole new level,\u201d says Zarni.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Standing at Gaza Border Felt Like Visiting Auschwitz: Burmese Genocide Scholar Maung Zarni\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EiIc_ToIwi0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><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.\u00a0Zarni is the co-founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forsea.co\/\" >FORSEA<\/a><em>, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for <\/em>Free Rohingya Coalition,<em> and an adviser to the <\/em>European Centre for the Study of Extremism<em>, Cambridge<strong>. <\/strong>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 &#8220;Cultivation of Harmony&#8221; award from the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions (2015). 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). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 Sep 2024 &#8211; TRANSCEND member Burmese scholar, dissident, and human rights activist Maung Zarni discusses his recent visit with faith leaders to the West Bank and the border of Gaza, drawing parallels between Burma\u2019s and Israel\u2019s human rights abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1198,526,1854,87,865,88,427,527,965,1025],"class_list":["post-274329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-buddhism","tag-burma-myanmar","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-rohingya","tag-war-crimes","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274329","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=274329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274330,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274329\/revisions\/274330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}