📢Exciting news: 'No More Silence' a powerful new book of poetry by Mohammed Arshad Amin @author_arshad is out now. A bold and moving exploration of voice, loss + resilience.
📚 Available here: https://t.co/d5RY2Mhq3n
More info: https://t.co/afrYSMFMXO Cover pic: @CFWRohimUllah pic.twitter.com/OlaDX1O5pf

— Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee) October 9, 2025

Delighted to share my new article co-written with Rokon Uddin: “Preference Falsification: Making Sense of Public Opinion Surveys in Autocratising Bangladesh” based on Prothom Alo newspaper and International Republican Institute survey data. It is available OPEN ACCESS in Asian Affairs here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03068374.2025.2519632

Delighted to share my new article co-written with @Rokon_Analyst “Preference Falsification: Making Sense of Public Opinion Surveys in Autocratising Bangladesh” based on @ProthomAlo + @IRIglobal surveys. OPEN ACCESS in @RSAsianAffairs Asian Affairs https://t.co/TRZz9r12XA
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— Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee) August 3, 2025

Myanmar's looming military-run election lacks legitimacy and will be characterised by the jailing of anyone who dares criticise it. I was delighted to join @Monocle_Radio today to discuss the latest #whatshappeninginMyanmar events 👇 https://t.co/bWcWqw2FsP

— Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee) August 1, 2025

Have we forgotten the Rohingya?

I'm pleased to join this important panel hosted by @SAsiaLSE with @restlessmabrur @RestlessBeings @tunkhin80 @brouklondon @Ronan_Lee @shafiur @pennyjgreen

📅 Wed, 4 June
🕒 3pm 🇬🇧 / 8.30pm 🇲🇲#whatshappeninginMyanmarhttps://t.co/1XZ56GsdF8 pic.twitter.com/YLVirLQGdO

— Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee) June 3, 2025

Earthquake devastation in Myanmar and still the military junta uses airstrikes to attack its opponents. These are crimes against humanity. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
📻 My comments to @Monocle_Radio's The Globalist today about #EarthquakeinMyanmar https://t.co/YBreNr4dcr

— Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee) March 31, 2025

Once Min Aung Hlaing is removed from office, he will face immediate justice.
My comment to @mariasiow for @SCMPNews 👇

Will Myanmar’s junta chief face justice for crimes against Rohingya? #whatshappeninginMyanmar
https://t.co/sZWcpMGLzQ via @scmpnews

— Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee) December 7, 2024

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A step closer to justice for the Rohingya. International Criminal Court prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar military boss Min Aung Hlaing for Crimes Against Humanity. I spoke with @Monocle_Radio’s The Globalist about this. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

The Globalist: @IntlCrimCourt seeks an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, arguing he bears responsibility for the deportation and persecution of the Rohingya. @Ronan_Lee, author of ‘Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide’, tells us more.https://t.co/qe4txrU6ez

— Monocle Radio (@Monocle_Radio) November 28, 2024

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Saffron Ethnocracy: conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

So pleased to join @RudabehS as coauthor of a new article where we intro #SaffronEthnocracy identifying #Islamophobic variation of ethnocracy in #India #Myanmar #SriLanka https://t.co/UIctLRqceg

— Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee) August 5, 2024

China prefers a weak + reliant junta, but this makes it vulnerable to defeat. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar comment from me for The Monocle Minute @Monocle_Radio

Myanmar’s junta plans to hold elections. Can the country pull off a ‘democratic transition’? https://t.co/LVjo9W2tkt

— Dr Ronan Lee (@Ronan_Lee) August 20, 2024

NEW CHAPTER: Ronan Lee (2024), ‘Islamophobia and Genocide: Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide’, in Sahar F. Aziz, and John L. Esposito (eds), Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism (New York, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197648995.003.0014

The Rohingya’s exclusion from Myanmar’s political community, the genocide against them that this enabled, and their high-profile 2017 forced deportation provide a disturbing illustration of how quickly Islamophobia can be weaponized to diminish the social and political standing of a previously well-integrated minority. While Islamophobic policies might have been expected from Myanmar’s military rulers, these practices continued in a democratic context and were aided by improved access to modern media technologies. Using language about demographic threat that mirrored Great Replacement narratives, Buddhist nationalists successfully advocated for policies that severely limited Muslim rights and had devastating consequences for the Rohingya. Despite Myanmar’s moves toward democracy, once anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya speech was normalized, the path to genocide was a short one and occurred with little meaningful public outcry. This should provide a serious warning that in democratic contexts, normalized hate rhetoric can lead to atrocity crimes against even previously well-integrated groups.