Maung Zarni

In Burmese names, Maung is an honorific, not a surname.

Maung Zarni (Burmese: မောင်ဇာနည်, IPA: [maʊ̀̃zànì]) is a Burmese democracy advocate, human rights campaigner, and a former research fellow at the London School of Economics. He lived and worked in the United States for 17 years. In 1995 he founded the Free Burma Coalition and was its director until 2004. Zarni is also a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.[1] He is writing a book on Burma to be published by Yale University Press.[1][1]

Zarni was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics' Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in the Department of International Development (2011–13) before he was stripped of his research fellow status in 2014 on accounts of plagiarism in his PHD thesis. In that year of 2014, an anonymous PHD investigated his PHD thesis and found it to be 90% plagiarised. As a result, Maung Zarni was stripped of all titles and positions. He was also a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA (2014–15).[2] Earlier he served as a Programme Leader for Universiti Brunei Darussalam's Institute of Asian Studies, founded in 2012.[3] Zarni resigned position at Darussalam Brunei University in January 2013 after being instructed to stop advocating for democracy in Brunei. In his resignation letter he wrote: "I simply could not countenance allowing my employer to intimidate me into professional silence on unfolding human rights atrocities." He got into trouble for focusing attention on the Rohingya Muslim minority's oppression by Buddhist in Burma.[4][5] Zarni is Buddhist.[4]

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  1. 1 2 3 Dr. Maung Zarni resignation letter Maunzarni.net January 2013
  2. ↑ http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/people/faculty/maung-zarni
  3. ↑ "Research @ UBD". Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  4. 1 2 The Sultan of Brunei Intends to Stone Adulterers (Wait, What Century Is This?) by Charlie Campbell March 7, 2014 Time magazine
  5. ↑ Dr Maung Zarni Resignation Letter January 2013

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