When Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy was elected to government in November 2015, there was a wave of relief across Myanmar, and the world, that, after decades of repression, things would change for the better. For many citizens of Myanmar there has been positive change, if most of it occurring prior to […]
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As 2017 begins to unfold, the persecution of Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingyas has accelerated. Since the beginning of the year, the UN says more than 20,000 Rohingyas had fled Myanmar’s western Rakhine state into neighboring Bangladesh ahead of state-organised violence, bringing the recent total to close to 70,000. Human rights groups have described reports of organized […]
Among the many claims that about ‘boat people’ that are made in order to fulfil particular political agendas, one is that when a war is officially concluded then people who live in the once afflicted area have nothing more to worry about. As a result, they do not have a legitimate claim for protection against […]
A leading Australian human rights think-tank has expressed serious concern over the basis of investigations by Australias domestic intelligence organisation, ASIO, into Sri Lankan Tamil refugees. The Director of Deakin Universitys Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights, Professor Damien Kingsbury, has cast doubt on ASIOs investigations. Professor Kingsbury said ASIOs investigation bore the hallmarks […]