News Compilations from various sources
- Jan 12, 2017
Burma UN Rapporteur Blocked on Kachin State Visit as more Kachin minority groups flee war to China
VOA quoted Yanghee Lee as saying she had received “no cooperation from both the Union and Kachin State government—I was not allowed to...
Emma Richards | Asian Correspondent
- Jan 11, 2017
Burma: Fresh fears for freedom of speech under Aung San Suu Kyi’s administration
THE 2015 election of the National League for Democracy (NLD) was a time of hope and celebration in Burma (Myanmar). High expectation...
Editorial | The Sydney Morning Herald
- Jan 11, 2017
The horror in Myanmar demands a response
We wanted a fairytale, but we're getting a horror story. After 15 years of detention in which she suffered abuse, psychological torture...
Julian Borger | The Guardian
- Jan 11, 2017
Among the ghosts of Cambodia’s killing fields: on the set of Angelina Jolie’s new film
Can the Hollywood star’s Khmer-language film – with an all-Cambodian cast and crew – help a nation to confront the horrors of its past?...
Ellen Barry | The New York Times
- Jan 10, 2017
‘There Are No Homes Left’: Rohingya Tell of Rape, Fire and Death in Myanmar
Rohingya from Myanmar at a refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, in December. An estimated 65,000 Rohingya have fled across the border,...
Amanda Borschel-Dan | The Times of Israel
- Jan 9, 2017
Through studying the Holocaust, Cambodians deal with own genocide
In a meeting of minds, a small town Indiana teacher and a Cambodian scholar documenting the Khmer Rogue atrocities create a workshop for...