{"id":291651,"date":"2025-04-07T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=291651"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:49:46","slug":"burmese-junta-continues-bombing-in-aftermath-of-devastating-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/04\/burmese-junta-continues-bombing-in-aftermath-of-devastating-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe Darkest Hour of Need\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>1 Apr 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">We get an update from TRANSCEND member Maung Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Burma Friday [28 Mar], leaving at least 2,700 dead, with the death toll expected to rise as rescue efforts continue. Aid groups in the worst-hit areas of Burma, also known as Myanmar, said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water. The country&#8217;s civil war has complicated efforts to reach those injured and made homeless in the disaster, and Amnesty International says the military needs to allow aid to reach areas of the country not under its control. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Darkest Hour of Need&quot;: Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_yOurSAdsn0?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>1 Apr 2025 &#8211; We get an update from TRANSCEND member Maung Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Burma Fri [28 Mar], leaving at least 2,700 dead.<\/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":[2923,526,2479,101,100,1199,865,335,527,99],"class_list":["post-291651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-buddhists","tag-burma-myanmar","tag-civil-war","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-genocide","tag-muslims","tag-rohingya","tag-structural-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291651","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=291651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291655,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291651\/revisions\/291655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}