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Archives: Southeast Asia
Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority
VICE News | (Video report) | - - "In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by a military junta. As the reforms took…
Floating Graveyard: 6000 Migrants, incl. Rohingya Muslims, Marooned in SE Asia Seas
By Kanya D'Almeida | -- UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - On Thursday, May 14, a group of journalists rented a boat from Ko Lipe, a small island in Thailand’s southwest Satun Province, and…
Rohingya Muslim Minority Migrants targeted by Buddhists found in Mass Grave
Wochit News / IRIN | - "Dozens of police and volunteers exhumed six more bodies on Saturday in the second day of digging out a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking…
Junta arrests Thai Protesters using ‘Hunger Games’ 3-finger Salute at Mockingjay Premiere
TomoNews & The Telegraph | --- [Taiwan Animators (TomoNews)] "I’m sure you remember this touching scene from 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' where Katniss shows her resolve and will to fight after her…
Militant Buddhist Monks stir attacks on innocent Muslims in Myanmar
AJ+ "Buddhist monks were a symbol of hope and defiance during the dark years of Myanmar’s military dictatorship. But as the country opens up to the world, some have taken a radically…
How Myanmar’s government is making Buddhist violence toward Muslims worse
How Myanmar’s government is making violence between Muslims and Buddhists worse (via GlobalPost) MEIKHTILA, Myanmar — “For three days,” Khine recalls, “our town was hell.” As the 32-year-old waitress tells it, the…
Kerry Blasts Climate Denialists, equates Climate Change with Terrorism, WMDs
(By Juan Cole) Secretary of State John Kerry was in Asia this weekend, and one of his emphases in China and Indonesia was the urgency of dealing with the climate disruption caused…