By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority has been detained just hours after he was released from prison by the military government. The Rev. Hkalam Samson, the former head of the Kachin Baptist Convention, was among 3,300 prisoners released Wednesday
A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an amnesty by the military government, a relative, a colleague and local media said Thursday.
Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military said Wednesday that ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave. A nationwide conflict in Myanmar began after the army in 2021 ousted the elected government, imprisoned Suu Kyi and began suppressing nonviolent protests that
Anzac Day is an annual public holiday where we commemorate those who lost their lives on April 25 in Gallipoli. On this day, many things are closed for our fallen ANZACS. However, sometimes, folks need last-minute things such as food, drinks and clothing. So we’ve wrangled up all the info on what will be open […]
Only a small fraction are political prisoners, advocates said.
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 14, 2024 Burma is no stranger to conflict nor endemic ethnic clashes. Tragically the isolated Southeast Asian state, aka Myanmar, has been in the cross hairs of strife for generations, as a churning cycle of violence creates civil confrontation, refugee exodus, and a widening humanitarian disaster plagues […]
In the summer of 1999, I spent 14 weeks learning to shoot people.Well, and to stab them with a bayonet. "Blood makes the grass grow green," and please do inquire regarding my war face.Georgia is unpleasant in summer, and OSUT — one-station unit training, the extended version of basic training that the Army grants to infantrymen as a very special personal gift — is exceptionally tedious. In the movies, basic training involves a lot of dramatic shouting and high-intensity confrontation, and...
It’s the second time in just over a month that junta raids forced an evacuation of Monywa township.
Disney-owned factual cablenet National Geographic has ordered a three-part docuseries examining an infamous human behaviour experiment conducted in Stanford prison in 1971. The Stanford Prison Experime
The last time Bahram Sintash saw his journalist father was in 2017. Qurban Mamut, an influential Uyghur editor had come to the United States for a visit but upon his return to Xinjiang in northwest China, he disappeared. Sintash later learned that his father had been swept up in China’s 2017 crackdown on Uyghurs and