Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
A ship carrying hundreds of Rohingya Muslims sent out a distress call asking to be rescued Tuesday, saying they were abandoned by their captain without fuel and have been without food or water for three days… Most are trying to reach Malaysia… They have been prevented from disembarking, in some cases for two or more… Read more.
The only meaningful step President Thein Sein has taken towards democracy was to release Suu Kyi in 2010 from nearly 15 years of house arrest. But he has since co-opted this former ‘democracy icon’ into his political establishment – as leader of the loyal (i.e., powerless) opposition in parliament. And nothing demonstrates the extent to… Read more.
Yesterday Barack Obama became the first president of the United States to visit Myanmar (otherwise known as Burma). But it was hardly a cause for universal celebration. Specifically, international human rights groups criticized him for conferring legitimacy on this country’s oppressive regime. Not least because it is perpetrating the kind of ethnic cleansing of minorities… Read more.
Her heroic, even if terminally futile, struggle to restore democracy has garnered her remarkable spurts of international attention and acclaim. Most notable in this respect was when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 – after the National League for Democracy party she founded won a landslide general election (in 1990), which the… Read more.
Her heroic, even if terminally futile, struggle to restore democracy has garnered her remarkable spurts of international attention and acclaim. Most notable in this respect was when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 – after the National League for Democracy party she founded won a landslide general election (in 1990), which the… Read more.
In recent years, Myanmar has made news in the West for all the wrong reasons. Most notorious in this respect was when the military junta, which now rules this country, brutally cracked down on Buddhist monks who were leading protests for democratic freedoms, and then again when it inhumanely refused international aid for victims of… Read more.
