Maung Zarni

Maung Zarni is a long-time Burmese human rights activist, a fellow with the Genocide Documentation Center of Cambodia, and a former Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Department of International Development (2006-09). He co-authored, (with Natalie Brinham) "The Slow Burning Genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar" (The Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, Spring 2014), the first academic study that looks at the plight of the Rohingya using the genocide framework.

Oxford University’s Complicity in Myanmar’s Genocide Denial

Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of genocide by Myanmar, Oxford University is passing off the genocide as “public relations” issue.

Aung San Suu Kyi when she was a Burmese pro-democracy campaigner walking with Andrew Dilnot, the Principal of St Hugh's College of the Oxford University, at a reception in Oxford in June 2012. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

When reality goes off the chart of what is thinkable, fiction is no match.  That Oxford University’s most iconic living graduate Aung San Suu Kyi may find herself at the International Criminal Court for her “complicity of silence in crimes against humanity” and even a genocide will go down in history as one such extraordinary tale.  Yet as the UN

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