Southeast Asia
Burma sanctions lifted amid ethnic cleansing
Villages are in flames and hundreds displaced in a new army crackdown on supposed Rohingya militants—days after President Obama lifted all sanctions on Burma.
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Southeast Asia
Philippines: more Duterte death-squad links revealed
A former death-squad hitman testified to the Philippine Senate that extrajudicial executions in Mindanao were personally ordered by now-president Rodrigo Duterte.
Southeast Asia
Hong Kong activist barred by Thai military regime
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was barred from entering Thailand to attend commemorations of the 1976 massacre of student protesters.
Southeast Asia
Thailand: ‘culture of torture’ under military regime
Amnesty International released a report detailing widespread rights abuses in Thailand, and asserting that the military government has instated a "culture of torture."
Southeast Asia
Philippines: ‘state of lawlessness’ after Davao blast
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte declared a "state of lawlessness" after a deadly bomb blast at a market in the southern city of Davao by the ISIS-affiliated Abu Sayyaf group.
Southeast Asia
Thai rights defenders charged over torture report
Military officials in Thailand charged three human rights defenders with violations of the Computer Crimes Act after they released a report detailing acts of torture.
Southeast Asia
Hague tribunal rules in flashpoint South China Sea
China refuses to recognize a Hague tribunal ruling in favor of Philippine maritime claims—just one of several conflicts at play as tensions rise in the South China Sea.
Southeast Asia
UN sees ‘crimes against humanity’ in Burma
Human rights abuses against the Rohingya in Burma may amount to crimes against humanity, according to a new report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Southeast Asia
Burmese opium farmers protest eradication
As ethnic insurgencies continue, opium-growers in Burma's northern mountains issued a statement demanding a halt to eradication programs as essential to any peace deal.
Southeast Asia
Death-squad boss elected president of Philippines?
President-elect of the Philippines is bombastic anti-crime hardliner Rodrigo Duterte who boasts of his links to death squads—despite his roots on the political left.
Southeast Asia
Vietnam: protests over massive fish deaths
Hanoi saw a rare public protest as hundreds demonstrated against a Taiwanese firm they accuse of causing mass fish deaths along 120 miles of Vietnam's central coast.
Southeast Asia
Mass arrests in West Papua independence protests
Nearly 2,000 were arrested by security forces in Indonesia's Papua province for "illegal" pro-independence demonstrations marking the end of Dutch colonial rule in 1963.