Category: NEWS
The latest news and reports on Southeast Asia, from FORSEA Board Members and special guest writers.
Bureaucratic Despair at the United Nations Human Rights Council, but Hope, Love and Strength amongst Myanmar’s Resistance Communities
Listen Mr. Human Rights Commissioner: Hope is NOT rare among us Myanmar revolutionaries and our supporters.
Myanmar Military’s Acts of Terrorism from the Sky & Savage Beheadings on the Ground
Under Min Aung Hlaing’s genocidal commandership, Myanmar Armed Forces are morphing into a terrorist organization in full view of the world at large. The question now for Myanmar – and the pro-democratic world – to ask themselves is a variation of Lenin’s “What needs to be done?”
Trouble in No Man’s Land
The events leading up to the destruction of the Rohingya camp in No Man's Land and the role of Bangladesh in it.
The Execution of 4 Activists should Strengthen Myanmar People’s Resolve & Unite their Resistance against the Genocidal Military Junta
Their lost lives this weekend should unify us. Their barbaric executions should instil a much-needed ethos of camaraderie – which calls for basic respect, appreciation and mutual support. It is way past time that every Myanmar that wants to rid the country of the genocidal regime of Min Aung Hlaing unite. We must make sure that they did not die, in vain.
Reassessment of Bilateral and Multilateral relations with the UN Member State of Myanmar Must Take Place
FORSEA's Dr Maung Zarni calls for the reassessment of bilateral and multilateral relations with the UN Member state of Myanmar, in the hands of the genocide perpetrators, and urges the international community of democracies to provide Myanmar resistance with arms and other support.
ICJ’s Mishandling of The Gambia v Myanmar undermines confidence in the Court
On 21 February, FORSEA hosted an international law roundtable with three Canadian and American legal scholars and practitioners immediately after the court’s completion of the first of the 4-public hearings on Myanmar’s preliminary objections to the court’s jurisdictions and Gambia’s legal standing with the court in The Gambia v Myanmar.
A Scream from Global Civil Society: India Genocide Warning
Fifty-four renowned intellectuals, musicians, scholars, and activists from 24 countries will gather in a live YouTube public event which is billed “A Scream from Global Civil Society: India Genocide Warning!” View LIVE on Friday 4th February, 12:00PM - 5:00PM GMT/LONDON | 5:30PM - 10:30PM NEW DELHI | 07:00AM -12 NOON CANADA/US EASTERN.
Consider This: Myanmar – What’s General Aung Min’s Endgame?
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the coup in February ended a decade of democratisation Eighteen months on, more than 1,000 civilians have been killed by the country’s security forces and many members of the ousted government including Aung San Suu Ski are on trial or in jail. With the introduction of the Burma Act, will the international context shift in favour of the ousted government?
Analysis on the trial of the ousted NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Maung Zarni comments on the farcical nature of the politically motivated trial of the Burmese Nobel Peace laureate who remains overwhelmingly popular with the ethnically majority Burmese electorate.
BJP’s Hindutva, Modi’s Righ-wing Populism and their Devastating Impact on India Society
Amitabh Pal, the American-educated Indian journalist offered his incisive analysis of the ideological pillars on which rests the toxic mix of Hindutva or Hindu nationalism and right-wing populism of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.