If the government falls, supporters will resist with armed recruits.
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
The poll is sorely needed by a nation that has no idea of its population size. But rights groups urge that it be suspended.
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
Each year rivers swell, lakes expand and villages sink beneath soupy brown waters. This year’s flooding is particularly miserable.
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,
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal attempts to prosecute war crimes that the International Criminal Court in The Hague won’t.
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,
A report from Myanmar’s government claims the Muslim sub-population are simply displaced Bengalis from neighboring Bangladesh.
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
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 […]
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
