An ambush on a convoy of Indonesia’s elite Mobile Brigade (Brimob) left one officer dead in restive West Papua following a wave of Brimob sweeps in which several villagers were killed.
At least 11 were killed and 18 others wounded when gunmen opened fire on a mosque in Joh-i-Rong district of southern Thailand’s Narathiwat province during evening prayers.
Authorities in Burma closed the trial of pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi after briefly opening it to 30 foreign diplomats earlier this week.
Nicaragua has issued a passport for Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra—who is wanted on charges of inciting the recent riots. Thai diplomats say they will request extradition.
Security forces raided a huge marijuana plantation in the southern Philippine island province of Sulu, Mindanao region. A military statement linked the militant Abu Sayyaf group to the plantation.
The ASEAN summit at the Thai resort town of Pattaya was abruptly canceled after hundreds of protesters forced their way past police and army troops into the convention center.
The southern Philippine region of Mindanao is on high alert following two bomb blasts this weekend that left two dead and several more wounded—one at a fast-food restaurant, and one on a pubic bus.
On the tenth anniversary of the massacre at Liquiça, there has still been no accountability to victims of horrific crimes committed during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.
UN investigators renewed their call for charges against Burma military officials suspected of carrying out a genocide against the nation's minority Rohingya population over the past year. The UN Office of Human Rights published an exhaustive list of atrocities and called "for the investigation and prosecution of Myanmar's Commander-in-Chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and his top military leaders for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes." Since last August, 700,000 Rohinga refugees have fled into neighboring Bangladesh, and many have spoken of the Burmese military's attacks on their villages, describing actions that are considered crimes against humanity under international law. This August, a UN fact-fidning mission for the first time referred to the conflict as a genocide. (Photo: UNHCR)
A hostage crisis involving three International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers may force agencies to stop bringing assistance to some areas of the Philippines, officials told the UN news agency IRIN. Stephen Anderson, the World Food Programme (WFP)… Read morePhilippines: Mindanao hostage crisis jeopardizes aid work
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar issued a report urging the investigation and prosecution of Burma's top military generals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Mission "found patterns of gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States that undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law," adding that there is likely sufficient evidence to establish "genocidal intent." (Photo: European Commission via Flickr)
Hundreds of Burmese Muslim refugees put to sea by Thai authorities remain missing. Burma’s junta denies the Rohingya exist as an indigenous ethnicity, calling them Bangladeshi settlers.
