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Patrick Winn

Thailand’s Upcountry Prepares For Civil War

If the government falls, supporters will resist with armed recruits.

March 21st, 2014
Patrick Winn
March 21st, 2014
By Patrick Winn
Thailand Politics

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — For months, Thailand has grown frighteningly chaotic. The Southeast Asian nation has lacked an official parliament since December. Protesters intent on toppling the government have sabotaged elections needed to pick a new one — all while invading ministries, blockading parts of the capital and vowing to abduct the

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Myanmar’s Upcoming Census Could Spark Anti-Muslim Violence

The poll is sorely needed by a nation that has no idea of its population size. But rights groups urge that it be suspended.

March 5th, 2014
Patrick Winn
March 5th, 2014
By Patrick Winn
A Rohingya Muslim woman who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape religious violence, sits with her baby in a boat after being intercepted crossing the Naf River by Bangladesh border authorities in Taknaf, Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Anurup Titu)

BANGKOK — Decades of dictatorship in Myanmar produced a deep catalogue of casualties: slain dissidents, land mine victims and economic ruin, to name a few. A lesser-known casualty of Myanmar’s totalitarian rule? Facts. For instance: Maybe Myanmar has the population of South Korea. Maybe its population rivals that of France. Both estimates of

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Cambodia’s Flooding Brings Specter Of Disease

Each year rivers swell, lakes expand and villages sink beneath soupy brown waters. This year’s flooding is particularly miserable.

October 14th, 2013
Patrick Winn
October 14th, 2013
By Patrick Winn

  BANGKOK, Thailand — Flooding is a perennial pain in Cambodia, the low-lying, deeply impoverished nation squeezed between Thailand and Vietnam. About this time each year, rivers swell, lakes expand and villages sink beneath soupy brown waters. But this year’s flooding woes are proving particularly miserable. More than 100 are dead,

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A Controversial Court In Malaysia Is Attempting To Try Israel And The US For War Crimes

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal attempts to prosecute war crimes that the International Criminal Court in The Hague won’t.

May 28th, 2013
Patrick Winn
May 28th, 2013
By Patrick Winn

BANGKOK — When it debuted in 2002 to high praise, the International Criminal Court was seen by many as a dream realized. Dictators and war criminals, which left the 20th century so bloody, would finally fear a permanent tribunal with global reach. As the United Nations’ then-Secretary General Kofi Annan said following the court’s inauguration,

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Suu Kyi Spokesman: “There Is No Rohingya”

A report from Myanmar’s government claims the Muslim sub-population are simply displaced Bengalis from neighboring Bangladesh.

May 3rd, 2013
Patrick Winn
May 3rd, 2013
By Patrick Winn

YANGON, Myanmar — From the depths of obscurity, Myanmar’s highly beleaguered Muslim Rohingya ethnicity has become something of a global cause célèbre. The United Nations deems the roughly 1 million population group one of the world’s “most persecuted” minorities. In a report last week, Human Right Watch deployed some of the most potent language

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Foreign Aid Workers Burned By Myanmar’s Ethnic Fires

Myanmar’s coastal Rakhine State is stricken with just the sort of mess certain international aid groups are designed to relieve. Roiling conflict between the region’s native Buddhists and a stateless Muslim ethnicity, the Rohingya, has brought on mob killings, torched villages, mass displacement and even bow-and-arrow wounds. The remote state is cursed with poor public […]

November 12th, 2012
Patrick Winn
November 12th, 2012
By Patrick Winn
Myanmar earthquake victims take refugee under temporary shelter after their residence was damaged by a strong earthquake, Monday, Nov.12, 2012, in Kyaukmyaung township, Shwebo, Sagaing Division, northwest of Mandalay, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Myanmar’s coastal Rakhine State is stricken with just the sort of mess certain international aid groups are designed to relieve. Roiling conflict between the region’s native Buddhists and a stateless Muslim ethnicity, the Rohingya, has brought on mob killings, torched villages, mass displacement and even bow-and-arrow wounds. The remote state

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