{"id":316795,"date":"2026-06-01T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=316795"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:01:55","slug":"a-child-of-genocide-survivor-parents-this-rohingya-refugee-in-canada-believes-in-and-acts-on-never-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/06\/a-child-of-genocide-survivor-parents-this-rohingya-refugee-in-canada-believes-in-and-acts-on-never-again\/","title":{"rendered":"A Child of Genocide-Survivor Parents, This Rohingya Refugee in Canada Believes in and Acts on Never Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Left to right: Dr Natalie Brinham, Ko Tinmaung and Dr Maung Zarni. Dr Natalie Brinham, who co-authored ‘The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas,’ filmed the interview.<\/p><\/div>\n

27 May 2026 – Rohingya human rights activist, former refugee and veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces detailed the abuses he was subjected to by Israel\u2019s elite naval commandos and Israeli prison guards, in his 20-minutes recorded interview in Istanbul. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ko Tinmaung was subjected to ninety-six hours of anti-Muslim racist verbal abuse and bodily harms, (including tasing, slapping, and beatings) on Israel\u2019s \u201cprison ship\u201d and on land in Ashdod. Nothing could have prepared anyone to face the level of Israeli security officials\u2019 gleeful savagery, sadistic cruelty and Nazi-like anti-Muslim racism.<\/p>\n

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On 26 May, inside Turkeu\u2019s magnificent S\u00fcleymaniye Mosque, FORSEA\u2019s Dr Maung Zarni sat down with his Rohingya activist brother and recorded his first-hand experience in the hands of first Israel naval commandos on \u201ca prison boat\u201d and later of the Israeli prison guards in Ashdod, Israel.<\/p>\n

The two were in touch until a few hours before the abduction of Ko Tinmaung and his fellow members aboard the vassal Umut, one of 60+ boats that set sail from Turkey towards Gaza as part the Global Sumud Flotilla.<\/p>\n

Ko Tinmaung looked a bit frail and was still recovering from his ordeals when the interview took place.<\/p>\n

Personal background of a rights activist who believes in and acts on Never Again!<\/h3>\n

Ko Tinmaung was a child of Rohingya parents who as a young couple from Myanmar, survived the earliest wave of the state-directed genocidal mass deportation of Rohingyas in February 1978. His parents took refugee in adjacent Bangladesh where he was born in the city called Chittagong. He and his widowed mother later resettled as refugees in Toronto, Canada where he grew up and joined Canadian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

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But as a child of genocide survivors, he took the slogan Never Again! personally and has sought to pursue human rights activism and oppose ALL genocides, by the victims his fellow Rohingyas inside Myanmar or Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.<\/p>\n

He was subjected to constant pressure by his superior officers in the service because he has active in raising genocide awareness about the ongoing and slow-burning genocide of his fellow Rohingyas back in his ancestral land of Myanmar where both the state and the society, not just the pariah national military, are soaked in Buddhist Supremacist violent racism, particularly towards the predominantly Muslim Rohingyas.<\/p>\n

He finally resigned from his job \u2013 and was honourably discharged \u2013 in order that he may pursue his human rights activists without having to deal with the constant pressure to stay clear of such citizens\u2019 activism.<\/p>\n

Watch the 20-minutes interview with Ko Tinmaung below:<\/strong><\/p>\n