{"id":61849,"date":"2015-08-03T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=61849"},"modified":"2015-08-01T20:02:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T19:02:35","slug":"dissident-maung-zarni-slams-attempts-to-link-rohingyas-to-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/08\/dissident-maung-zarni-slams-attempts-to-link-rohingyas-to-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissident [Maung Zarni] Slams Attempts to Link Rohingyas to IS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>August 01, 2015 &#8211; <\/em>A prominent Burmese dissident and human rights activist slammed attempts by certain quarters to brand Rohingyas as sympathetic to IS terrorists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61850\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maung-zarni.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61850\" class=\"wp-image-61850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maung-zarni-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Maung Zarni\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maung-zarni-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maung-zarni-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/maung-zarni.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Maung Zarni<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr Maung Zarni wrote on his facebook wall \u2013 <em>\u201c\u2026 the careerist sickos in the fields called \u201cSecurity Studies\u201d and \u201cAnti-Terrorism Research\u201d centers, and some lazy journalists, are barking up the wrong tree when they attempt, again without success, to link #Rohingya genocide with ISIS, radicalization, blah blah blah.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zarni also referred to presidential spokespersons trying to brand Rohingyas with terrorists as \u20183rd rate Nazi propagandists\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come following reports in some sections of the international media that Rohingyas might be attracted towards terror groups such as the IS as they continue to face ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar regime.<\/p>\n<p>Following these reports, the security forces have launched a crackdown in some parts and tortured many Rohingyas on charges of belonging to the terror group. In one instance, army personal sexually harassed women in the IDP camp of Cilkhali in Rathedaung as they pretended to search for foreign fighters.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Maung Zarni<\/em><em>, Associate Fellow, the University of Malaya, <\/em><em>is a <\/em><em>member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>,<\/em> <em>founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), and a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press.<\/em> <em>He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years. Visit his website <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maungzarni.net\" >http:\/\/www.maungzarni.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/burmatimes.net\/dissident-slams-attempts-to-link-rohingyas-to-is\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 burmatimes.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zarni referred to presidential spokespersons trying to brand Rohingyas with terrorists as \u20183rd rate Nazi propagandists\u2019. His comments follow reports that Rohingyas might be attracted to IS as they continue to face ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar regime. Following these reports, the security forces have launched a crackdown in some parts and tortured many Rohingyas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61849","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=61849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}