Myanmar Junta extends "Emergency" to rig fake election
The six-month extension is intended to buy time for the military’s long-promised election, but conditions in the country are not...
Myanmar Airstrike Kills Nine In Displaced Persons Camp
A Myanmar air force jet fighter. © Myanmar Now At least nine people were killed and 30 injured in a junta bombing raid on an internally...
Myanmar Now
Feb 2
Indonesia accused of using white phosphorus in West Papua
By Pacific Media Watch 31 January 2025 The Frontier War documentary . . . "poisoning" of children by Indonesian bombings alleged in new...
Pacific Media Watch
Feb 1
Papua activists skeptical of Indonesia’s amnesty offer
By Victor Mambor and Tria Dianti 2 February 2025 West Papua independence activists . . . critics argue that Jakarta’s heavy-handed...
Vietnam wants Christian leader extradited from Thailand
The Montagnard activist, convicted of terrorism in absentia, was arrested in Thailand at Vietnam’s request. By RFA Vietnamese 10 January...
RFA Vietnamese
Feb 1
Indonesia forcing displacement of thousands in Papua
By Paul Gregoire 3 January 2025 United Liberation Movement for West Papua provisional government interim president Benny Wenda warns that...
Paul Gregoire
Jan 31
UN Warns of Escalating Myanmar Atrocities
A child who lost his left leg after accidentally stepping on a landmine in his family's paddy fields in central Myanmar. ©...
Myanmar Refugees Face Medical Crisis due to US Aid Freeze
By Panu Wongcha-um , Shoon Naing and Poppy Mcpherson January 29, 2025 7:23 AM GMT+1 Refugees who fled Myanmar are seen at their stilt...
François Ponchaud Alerted World to Khmer Rouge
Ponchaud’s 1977 book “Cambodge, année zero” was one of the first detailed accounts of the horrors that unfolded after the communist...
David Whitehouse
Jan 28
Indonesia offers conditional pardon of Papua separatists
By Ananda Teresia 22 Jan 2025 Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto salutes during a welcoming ceremony at the government palace, on the...
Ananda Teresia
Jan 27
Cambodia to Punish Khmer Rouge Genocide Denial
People who ‘deny the truth of the bitter past’ could be jailed for up to five years under the law, which still needs parliament approval....
Myanmar Junta Kills 20 in Airstrikes Targeting Hospital and Village
The public hospital in Kyaukme after the air raids / The Irrawaddy At least 20 people including two small children were killed and dozens...
The Irrawaddy
Jan 26
