Tag Archives : Myanmar

The United States of America has declared that, even with the resumption of high level talks with the military junta of Myanmar, the sanctions imposed by the US will not be withdrawn, until the Myanmar government embraces democracy and makes necessary reforms in its administration. The US ambassador the ASEAN Affairs, Scot Marciel has stated that, the [...]

According to the Minority Rights Group International (MRG) that trends annual indexes, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan have been topping annual lists for four straight years of countries where genocide, mass killings, or violent repression victimizes the minority population. The human rights group gives a more chilling conclusion: countries [...]

Nine Nobel Peace prize winners including Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have sent a letter to U.N.Secretary General Ban Ki-moon demanding his immediate intervention in the ongoing unjust trial of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Myanmar opposition democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house [...]

The ‘accelerated economic integration’ aid packages come with a lot of perks for the Chinese economy, as well as political ambitions, such as: • China’s trade with the 10-member ASEAN has nearly doubled from $105.9 billion in 2004 to $202.5 billion in 2007 • In spite of the rising effect of the global economic crisis, Chinese [...]

The UN Security Council urges Member States to act vigorously to end impunity for those who violate children’s rights by recruiting them to become child soldiers. The agency also reiterated its condemnation of the employment of children in war by combatant sides, as well as violence and sexual abuse of children who are victims in armed conflicts. Recruitment [...]

The tragedy of the Rohingya refugees occupies a special issue in the migrant debate as it has affected many ASEAN member countries. The Rohingya boat people, part of a Muslim minority group living in western Burma’s Arakan State, fled their country in waves over the recent months because of the tremendous pressure they were under from the military [...]