Category: NEWS
The latest news and reports on Southeast Asia, from FORSEA Board Members and special guest writers.
“What to Know About Myanmar’s ‘So-Called Election’” | TIME
In its 26th January 2026 issue, TIME Magazine takes a comprehensive look at the Myanmar elections that are being patronized and held in three phases. The article has contributions from Maung Zarni, Daw Moe Thuzar, as well as anonymous Myanmar experts based inside the country.
Rejecting Hindu Council UK’s “Warning” to the Government about Islamophobia
An organisation with Hindu supremacist and anti-Muslim ideological beliefs opposing efforts to tackle Islamophobia is unsurprising. What is troubling is a national newspaper amplifying this organisation as the sole representative of British Hindus.
Myanmar’s Youth & Rohingyas Die in the Country’s Multifront Conflicts and Ongoing Genocide
In the post-colonial period (since the country’s independence in 1948), Myanmar has been trapped in a vicious cycle of internal conflicts, with political, commercial, ethnic and religious dimensions.
Reading “Genocide in Gaza: Voices of Global Conscience” at the British Parliament
The dying Western Civilization (or “The West”) has not learned a thing during its 500-years of failed attempts to subjugate the Global Majority: The elite or rulers may submit, but the people never surrender to the invading colonizers. Palestine will be free.
Myanmar Anti-Junta Opposition Plays with Fire: Dangling Rare Earth Materials before Transactional & Un-Trustworthy Washington
Myanmar’s anti-Junta opposition in the diaspora and their Western supporters are playing with fire when they reportedly dangle before Trump’s transactional administration the prospects of a fire sale of the country’s strategic natural resources for political support.
People’s Inquiries: Alternatives for Seeking Justice
Today the Peoples’ Tribunal/Inquiry movement is part of the larger movement for building new and fair societies, creating new relations between people, and institutions alternative to those of the traditional modern state.
Don’t talk or write about Palestine: it is a career killer
Palestine is a “career killer”. That was the advice given by a senior academic at the University of Queensland to a PhD student, according to a submission received from a former student and staff member. In short, if you talk or write about Palestine, don’t expect to have a career at an Australian university.
Hindutva India deporting Rohingya refugees by throwing them into the Andaman Sea
On 17 May, The New York Times reports that “(t)he United Nations has called for an investigation into “credible reports” that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and expelled them, in some cases by putting them into the Andaman Sea off the shore of the same country they had escaped from, fearing persecution and death.”
India: Colonizing Kashmir (Since Its Independence in 1947)
On 26 and 27 April, the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs (founded in 1947) based in Karachi, hosted an international conference, “Seventy Years After the Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. That is, the struggle(s) against colonialisms/imperialisms.
Fort Apache, Washington D.C.: Race at the Centre of the Effort to Reassert a White America
While the US government domestically circles the wagons, mobilises the cavalry, and urges settlers to take refuge within a metaphorical Fort Apache 2025, it does so internationally as well.