Category: NEWS
The latest news and reports on Southeast Asia, from FORSEA Board Members and special guest writers.
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.
Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia welcomes Mireille Fanon Mendes France as a comrade to its board
Dr Mireille Fanon Mendes France is a well-known jurist, militant and activist on international law issues. She has served as a United Nations expert on the issues of institutional and structural racism, with particular reference to people of African descent and Africans.
Thailand Political Landscape and Trends in 2025: Stagnation, Suppression, and Status Quo
In this succinct overview of the state of affairs in his native Thailand in 2025, Jaran Ditapichai, the famed revolutionary and scholar exiled in France, connects the dots among his country's weakened democratic demands from below, the strengthening conservative forces in Thai society, economy and polity, and the lack of concerns among the Thai public in the international affairs.
Under the Shadow of Violence: Are the Banyamulenge Experiencing a Slow Genocide?
Because of colonial legacies and misrepresentations, members of this community are categorized as “foreigners and invaders”. Targeted by state actors, militias, and local and foreign armed groups, violence against the Banyamulenge has led to forced displacement, destruction of their economy and livelihoods and widespread killings.