Asia Unbound �� Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the.
A South Korean man identified as Kim Ki-jong, a fifty-five-year-old South Korean with a record of violent activism, slashed U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert with a knife across the face and hand on Thursday morning local time. Lippert received eighty. The collected data was then channeled into a database run by the U.S. National Security Agency, where it also becomes available to other intelligence agencies in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Violence Likely to Rock Nigerias Upcoming Election Is ���
During the 2013 presidential elections in Honduras, both the Organization of American States and various embassies in Tegucigalpa exerted pressure on key competitors and local leaders to keep the elections peaceful, and avoid stirring up tensions.
Nigerian Military Training Cancellation Baffles US Experts
Nigerias ambassador to the United States recently laid the blame for the militarys failures on Washington. In a speech last month, he criticized the United States for not providing Abuja with more weapons support. But Campbell said U.S. hands were.
SteveLendmanBlog: Color Revolutions, Old and New
Posing as independent NGOS, theyre, in fact, US-funded organizations charged with disruptively subverting democracy and instigating regime changes through non-violent strikes, mass street protests, major media agitprop, and.. Engdahl explained that the State Department..recruited and trained key opposition leaders from numerous anti-government organizations in Myanmar and ran its Saffron Revolution out of the Chaing Mai, Thailand US Consulate.
The 4th Media �� ���Pro-Democracy��� Groups Behind Myanmar.
Wirathu himself was in prison,according to AFP, for inciting hatred against Muslims, until recently released as part of an amnesty, an amnesty US State Department-funded (page 15,.pdf) Democratic Voice of Burma claims concerned only. The equivalent of Ku Klux Klan racists demanding that Americas black population be shipped back to Africa, the US State Departments ���pro-democratic��� protesters in Myanmar have been revealed as habitual, violent bigots with��.
NYPD Unveils Anti-Terrorism Unit To Deal With Protesters
New Yorks ���recent protests,��� include demonstrations in response to a grand jurys decision to not bring charges in the death of Eric Garner, who died after being placed in a chokehold by an NYPD officer. The same month, thousands of people marched .
Police Rule Out Fake Cash in Shanghai Crush
State media say the chaos began less than half an hour before midnight. Video footage posted on Chinas Yoku website showed scores of revelers pinned on a stairway that lead up to a riverfront platform. Police, Onlookers Yelled. As police and onlookers .
Stop Religious Violence in Myanmar - Global Voices
Global Voices - Citizen media stories from around the world. The riot that happened at the central town of Meikhtila on March 20 was the second major conflict after the sectarian violence in the Rakhine state which displaced 100,000 people last year. Myanmar. On Facebook, Ye Htut shared his thoughts [my] on the recent protests by radical Islamic groups in Indonesia, which warned to call for Jihad against Myanmar:.. Top World Stories. 2 days agoLatin America��.
North Korea Internet Partially Restored Following Outage
The National Defense Commission for Pyongyang said in state media late Sunday that the U.S. government was wrong to blame North Korea for the hacking.. U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Democrat Brad Sherman of California, is calling on his.
Chinese Websites Deleted One Billion Posts in 2014, State Media Says
17, Xinhua, Chinas state-run news agency, announced that Chinese websites had deleted one billion posts in 2014 as part of a government-led operation to jing wang, meaning to ���cleanse the web.��� According to Xinhua, of one billion ���erotic and.
Ashin Wirathu: Myanmar and its vitriolic monk
Myanmars most radical Buddhist monk is famed for his angry speeches, stoking fears that the Muslim minority will one day overrun the country. Now Ashin Wirathu has drawn the ire of the UN by calling its special envoy to Myanmar (formerly known as.
Understanding the Violence in Western Myanmar �� Global.
Myanmar is in the headlines these days because of two things: the historic European visit of Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, and the violence in Rakhine State located west of the country. Its difficult to blame a��.
Scrap GST or lose votes, Dr M tells people to warn BN
Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is telling Malaysians to voice out their grouses on the goods and services tax by telling Barisan Nasional that it will lose elections if more taxes are imposed. ��� The Malaysian��.
Refworld | Sudan: Student protests in 2012, particularly at.
. nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States... Voice of America (VOA), a news broadcaster funded by the US government (n.d.), reports that on 17 July 2012, a protest at Sudan University turned violent and students clashed with police (VOA 17 July 2012). Sources also indicate that at least one student from Sudan��.
Hong Kong Clears Remaining Protest Sites
Before ending the largest protests the Chinese government has seen in more than two decades, authorities had voiced concerns about possible violence. That did not happen.. Before his arrest, Lee told VOA that Hong Kong officials were to blame for.
France on High Alert, Search for Terror Accomplice Continues
In neighboring Germany, tens of thousands marched Saturday in Dresden to protest anti-Islamic sentiment, AFP reported. An estimated 35,000. Hollande called Fridays violence a horrible anti-Semitic attack. He said France will not. U.S.
US, NATO Mark End of Afghanistan Mission
It was launched under U.S. leadership to invade Afghanistan 13 years ago to remove the Taliban from power for sheltering the al-Qaida network that plotted the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Washington has since spent more than $100 .
After Paris Attacks, Pope Speaks Against Insulting Others Religions
On Thursday, Pope Francis condemned any killing in Gods name, defended freedom of expression, but insisted that other peoples religion could not be insulted or mocked. The pope, speaking to reporters as he flew from Sri Lanka to the Philippines, made .
Think Before You March
Just look at the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks: Instead of focusing its attention solely on al Qaeda, George W. Bushs administration chose to invade Iraq, a senseless and unnecessary diversion that eventually helped spawn the Islamic State. Today.
Fighting Intensifies as IS Aims to Capture Syrian Border City
With the threat of Kobani falling to the Islamic State, Turkey is experiencing violent street protests led by its Kurdish minority who say Turkeys government is failing to intervene. Police have used tear gas to break up many of the protests. Swaying.
Aung San Suu Kyi Endorses China-backed Mine in Myanmar
Copper mine protest. Monywa locals protesting against the copper mining investigation report. Screentshot from Elevens Media youtube video. Suu Kyi welcomed the protests and even reminded her detractors that.. they have a surplus of (I blame the surplus Yuan partly on Nixon+Kissinger + Wall Street vampire squids + cheap WalMart customers) combined with the 2C-tactics (coercion an corruption) to convert Burma into a Chinese vassal state, just like Tibet.
Myanmar, no longer closed, still complicated |. My hearts.
The nations media was heavily state controlled, with a policy of pre-publication censorship that turned domestic media into an organ for state propaganda. It was difficult or impossible for international media.. According to friends in the country, Burmese Facebook is filled with images designed to provoke these tensions, sometimes featuring the images of people raped or killed and text blaming the violence on minority groups. As a result, virtually everyone I spoke to��.
In Review: Muslim Minorities in the Asia-Pacific | LDESP
The recent Boston Bombings carried out by Chechen-American brothers have thrust non-Arab Muslims into the fore of media scrutiny.. These riots have unnerved the Muslim community which had been watching with unease when Rohingya Muslims became the target of ethno-religious violence in Rakhine State in November 2012. (���).. Voice of America contextualized the report in light of current international efforts to capitalize on the countrys successes.
Academic commentary on Burma uprising
Source: Ron Corben, ���ASEAN Under Pressure to Press Burma Against Violence���, Voice of America News. Australian National University visiting fellow Trevor Wilson, a former Australian ambassador in Rangoon, says the��.
Myanmar: 2012, the Year of Protests �� Global Voices
Aung San Suu Kyis election victory, the reported persecution of the Rohingya people and President Barack Obamas state visit were probably what the international community remembered about Myanmar in 2012.. The violence in the western part of the country sparked the most intense discussion in the country while the world was almost united in condemning the human rights violations inflicted on the Rohingya people.. 2 days agoMedia and Journalism��.
Somalia: Islamists destroy derelict church | Blogging for a.
. Islamism, Somalia Del.icio.us : , Catholic Church, Islamism, Somalia.. BBC and WYD: support for the violent anti-Catholic so-called ���indignados��� August 20, 2011. BeliefNet has a very good comment on the subject: ���Over a hundred of these fringe protest groups coalesced, as they so often do, into a confused m��l��e of conflicting special interests,��� reported Yiannopoulos. ���They were united.. Hillary Clinton?s Media Demons Return To Haunt Her?Loudly - Daily��.
Read The Full Transcript Of Obamas Powerful Speech In.
They marched as Americans who had endured hundreds of years of brutal violence, and countless daily indignities ��� but they didnt seek special treatment, just the equal treatment promised to them almost a century before.. Young people in Burma went to prison rather than submit to military rule. From the. We can make sure every person willing to work has the dignity of a job, and a fair wage, and a real voice, and sturdier rungs on that ladder into the middle class.
Religious Extremism Blamed for Myanmar Riots �� Global.
Many people also analyzed the roots of the violence, in particular, the rise of religious extremism which have caused division and hate in many parts of Myanmar. President U Thein Sein gave a televised speech to warn the��.
Darkness, barbed wire fail to stop vigil for Anwar
With her voice breaking on several occasions, she told the crowd that the last time she saw her father was on February 13, adding that they were allowed to visit once a month. But there. Although our father told us not to cry, but tonight even though I cried, dont tell my father, we would do our best this March 7, she said, referring to the #KitaLawan rally this Saturday.. Blame Ourselves For The Mistakes We Made, SAYS TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN, BAPA MERDEKA��.
Charlie Hebdo Protest Turns Violent in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD���. Islamist parties in Pakistan on Friday staged rallies against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons depicting Islams Prophet Muhammad. Pakistans parliament a day earlier unanimously approved a resolution .
The Secretary General in His Labyrinth
Earlier in the day, an American diplomat dropped a hint to a member of Bans staff: After more than a month of airstrikes in Iraq against Islamic State militants, the United States was expanding its bombing campaign into Syria. The strikes would begin.
Its Official: The Man Who Ruled China Has All But Vanished
Thats why Hus near-disappearance from state media since he stepped down in November 2012 is so important. It not only shows his genuine inability to seize the reins of power; it also highlights the rapid ascent of current president Xi Jinping, who.