Western leaders have turned away from the troubles of one of the world’s most repressed countries as global recession has gripped the headlines. The world must not be allowed to forget.
More than a year ago, the promise of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s election victory of 1990 seemed soon to be fulfilled. Burma’s streets thronged with monks protesting against the junta’s [...]
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Burma: The faded saffron dream
Posted in Burma, International, Politics and News, Southeast Asia, tagged ASEAN, Aung San Suu Kyi, Buddhist monks, Burma, China, democracy, demonstration, International politics, isolation, Junta, military rule, monks, Myanmar, National League for Democracy, news, NLD, Politics, protest, Rangoon, Southeast Asia, thailand, Than Shwe on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Malaysia: Is Anwar just leaving us hanging?
Posted in International, Malaysia, Politics and News, Southeast Asia, tagged Abdullah Badawi, Anwar Ibrahim, International, International politics, Malaysia, Malaysia Today, Politics, Politics and News, Raja Petra on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The leader of Malaysia’s opposition coalition promised in the summer to bring down the government by Malaysia Day. Three months on, Anwar Ibrahim has offered nothing but suspense, and political change in Malaysia looks less likely than ever.
All is quiet on the wires. The journalists have stopped writing. In fact, the promise of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim [...]
Turkey: Ataturk’s unlikely heirs
Posted in Europe, International, Politics and News, tagged accession, AKP, constitution, constitutional court, court, democracy, EU, Europe, headscarves, International politics, Islam, Islamist, judgement, judges, Justice and Development, Kemal Ataturk, muslim, news, Politics, secular, secularism, Turkey on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The inheritors of Kemal Ataturk’s secular republic appear not to be Istanbul’s urban elite or Turkey’s overbearing army, but rather the Islamist AKP.
On Wednesday Turkey’s constitutional court, the highest in the land, ruled by a razor thin majority of six to five that the party of government, Justice and Development (the AKP) was not [...]
Serbia: The capture of Karadzic
Posted in International, tagged accession, EU, EU membership, Europe, integretion, International politics, Kosovo, NATO, Politics, Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After 10 years in hiding, one of the world’s most wanted men will be brought to book. Will Serbia finally be able to put its tortured past behind it and look to the future?
On Monday the 21st, the office of the Serbian president released a short and undetailed statement announcing “Radovan Karadzic was located [...]
Zambia: A Deficit of Principles
Posted in International, tagged Africa, AU, Bostwana, crisis, election, F.W. de Klerk, internationl politics, Jacob Zuma, Kenya, Levy Mwanawasa, MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai, political crisis, Politics, Robert Mugabe, SADC, Thabo Mbeki, Zimbabwe on July 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
How the stroke suffered by Zambia’s president Levy Mwanawasa highlights Africa’s perennial problem, the mediocrity of its politicians.
In the hours before the African Union summit, on June 29th in Sharm El Sheikh, Levy Mwanawasa, the serving president of Zambia was rushed to hospital following a stroke. He was later moved to a hospital in [...]
