His first book was the first I read about Burma. I later submitted posts regularly to FEER and Asiaweek<\/em> \u2014 both then published in Hong Kong \u2014 under the pseudonym Bo Aung Din<\/strong>, and had several published in the letters-to-the-editor section. I even had correspondence with Mr. Lintner himself, who once sent me a three-page telegraph apologizing for a delayed book delivery and offered a six-month FEER subscription free of charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He later contacted me about ten months before the Thida Htwe massacre<\/strong>, ahead of Eid ul-Adha (4\u20139 November 2011). I had arranged for him to meet Datuk Ahmad Azam Abdul Rahman<\/strong> \u2014 a prominent politician, former right-hand man of Deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim, Chairman of Global Peace Malaysia, and President of a consortium of 77 NGOs \u2014 along with Rohingya activists. I also arranged for my son Zin Oo Ko to assist him with transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He visited my clinic twice, but I was occupied with patients both times. When he came a second time the day before Eid to say goodbye, I invited him to stay one more day so we could talk at length \u2014 on Eid itself, I would be free and others would be busy with Kurban. He accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We sat in the kitchen \u2014 joined by my son, my brother-in-law (a doctor), two other doctors, and my wife \u2014 and talked over food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a while, Lintner began speaking about widespread Islamophobia and the Myanmar Military’s plan for the mass murder and expulsion of Rohingyas from Rakhine and Myanmar<\/strong>. When we expressed disbelief, he warned us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “You are non-Rohingya Myanmar Muslims and Panthays \u2014 you think you will be spared. After the Rohingyas, other Muslims in mainland Myanmar will come next. The military will incite riots, and kill and destroy your shops and homes.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I reminded him that he had written a full Bangkok Post centre-page article predicting Ne Win’s resignation \u2014 with an Anti-Muslim riot followed by a Buddhist-Muslim alliance that would snowball \u2014 roughly two to three months before it happened. And that he had predicted Aung San Suu Kyi’s release about two weeks in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He smiled and explained: he had married the sister of a Myanmar ethnic Shan rebel leader and lived near the border. The Myanmar Military Commanders were communicating repeatedly on wireless using code words \u2014 all recorded by the Ethnic Revolutionary Organizations (EROs) at the border, who had been trained by the CIA, MI5, Mossad, and others, and could decipher those conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This conversation took place exactly ten months before the Thida Htwe massacre.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For further context, please see my earlier post: “Behind the Riots: Questions of Hidden Hands in Myanmar’s Communal Violence”<\/em> \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2026\/04\/14\/behind-the-riots-questions-of-hidden-hands-in-myanmars-communal-violence\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Lintner possessed foreknowledge of the military’s plan to attack the Rohingyas and incite anti-Muslim violence across Myanmar \u2014 and shared it with us privately in November 2011. That knowledge was never published. Instead, in the years that followed, his writing shifted toward focusing on “international jihadists” in Burma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Martin Luther King Jr. wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Read also: Dear Mr. Bertil Lintner, Please kindly write about the Myanmar\u2019s plan for Rohingya Massacre and Atrocities on Myanmar Muslims throughout the main-land Myanmar that you told us in KL in Nov 2011<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The following are the e-mail conversation of Mr. Bertil Lintner with me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read MORE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thida Htwe was not raped<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Daw Aung San Suu Kyi admitted that Rohingya problem had started 200 YEARS AGO. Not because of Thida Htwe\u2019s murder nor ARSA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Myanmar authorities manufactured the Oct 9 attacks for speeding up mass killings and evictions and to change the Rohingya narrative<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thida htwe\u2019s case, Tomas Ojea Quintana and Dr Maung Zarni<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thida Htwe was never raped but her body was used by Myanmar Military to trigger the massacres against Muslims and Rohingyas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Hidden Hands\u2019 Behind Communal Violence in Myanmar \u2013 I told you so<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n TQ Dr. Maung Zarni and Ko Zargana \u1031\u1000\u103a\u1038\u1007\u1030\u1038\u1021\u1011\u1030\u1038\u1010\u1004\u1039\u1090\u103d\u102d\u1015\u102b\u1010\u101a\u1039 \u1031\u1012\u102b\u1000\u1039\u1010\u102c\u1031\u1019\u102c\u1004\u1039\u1007\u102c\u1014\u100a\u1039 \u1007\u102c\u1002\u1014\u102c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Did the gov\u2019t incite the racial violence targeting the Rohingya?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n An Open Note to Mr Maung Thura, the famed comedian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-148.png\")
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