Journalist & photographer
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/16/bloody-minded-promises-in-bangkoks-sea-of-red/ It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood – William Shakespeare What was supposed to be a peaceful political rally turned violent earlier on Monday. 3 Thai…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=18038 UPDATE Monday 4pm – 2 soldiers were injured after 4 grenades were thrown into a Thai army barracks outside Bangkok earlier today. This came during and after a tense…
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2010/03/14/sunday-in-bangkok-reds-in-the-city/ Earlier today, the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship demanded that the Thai Government dissolve the House of Representatives within 24 hours. Otherwise, the Red shirts will disperse…
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=113635 Burma’s new election rules vindicate the Cassandras who warned that the 2010 polls would be little more than window-dressing for continued army rule. Given the track record of Burma’s…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18013 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana, has recommended that the UN should consider establishing a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17987 Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta has launched a worldwide petition for democracy in Burma, which also calls for the release of Aung Saw Suu Kyi ahead of the election due…
http://www.thecasualtruth.com/story/europe-country http://www.eurasiareview.com/2010/03/32232-no-eu-daimonia-after-lisbon.html Lacking a democratic mandate and acting by stealth, the EU elites – namely senior Brussels-based bureaucrats and fellow traveler politicians at national level – have sought to make…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17960 Tomas Ojea Quintana was appointed UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on Myanmar in May 2008. His task is “to examine, monitor, advise and publicly report on human rights…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=17945 Anti-government Redshirt supporters say that the Thai government must choose between suppression of its proposed “million-man” peaceful protest on March 14, or dissolution of the current Democrat-led government. “Our…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17937 After hearing testimony from 12 women who outlined abuses they suffered at the hands of the Burmese army and military regime, a panel of Nobel peace laureates and international…