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Maung Zarni
Burmese democracy activist
In this Burmese name, Maung is an honorific, not a given name.
Maung Zarni (Burmese: မောင်ဇာနည်; born 1963) is a Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist.[1][2] He is noted for his opposition to the violence in Rakhine State and the Rohingya genocide.[3] Zarni is a co-founder of several activist platforms, including the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), the Free Rohingya Coalition (2018-present), and Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia (2018).
He is also a Fellow at the Documentation Center - Cambodia, specializing in genocide, and serves as an advisor to Genocide Watch.
Early life and education
Zarni was born in 1963 into a Burmese Buddhist family in Mandalay, Burma.
He migrated to the United States on the eve of Burma’s 1988 uprisings. He graduated with a BSc (Chemistry) from University of Mandalay in 1984[citation needed], MA from University of California, Davis in 1991[