Rodrigo Duterte on drug war: ‘I did what I had to do’
Oct 28, 2024 · Aside from the Senate, the House of Representatives has also been investigating the previous administration’s drug war. Eight police officers have so far been prosecuted for killings in Duterte’s drug war, and in none of those cases did the former president’s lawyers offer any help.. The killings under the Duterte administration are currently the focus of an International Criminal Court ...
In post-Hasina Bangladesh, Awami League faces uncertain future …
Oct 28, 2024 · Hasnat Abdullah, coordinator of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, which had spearheaded the anti-Hasina uprising, called for the tribunal to put party members on trial.He also said Awami must be banned. Ahmed, the analyst, expects party leaders to remain and to organize online.
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'Lips sewn without anesthetic,’ other shockers from Bangladesh report on Hasina-linked disappearances 2024-12-19. They include alleged “brutal and methodical torture,” grisly murders and a complex system operating undetected for 15 years.
Myanmar’s Wa rebels reject Thai demand to withdraw from bases …
Nov 26, 2024 · Ethnic rebels in eastern Myanmar’s Shan state on Tuesday dismissed calls by the Royal Thai Army to withdraw from nine military camps along a disputed portion of the border with Thailand, suggesting Bangkok take the issue up with the ruling junta. The United Wa State Army (UWSA), which controls an ...
Bangladesh tense after deadly violence as Hindu religious leader …
Nov 26, 2024 · Communal tensions surged in Muslim-majority Bangladesh after a Hindu religious leader was denied bail, with a prosecutor hacked to death amid huge protests against the minority leader’s arrest and sharp words between Dhaka and New Delhi. The developments dealt a fresh blow to law and order in a ...
UN report highlights scars of US nuclear testing in Marshall Islands
Sep 26, 2024 · The United States must consider a formal apology and full reparation to Marshall Islands citizens whose human rights have been violated by the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, U.N. rights experts said in a new report.
Indonesia considers repatriating foreign drug convicts; President …
Nov 26, 2024 · Indonesia is weighing a “humanitarian” plan to return incarcerated foreign drug convicts to their countries to serve their remaining sentences, with the president initially approving the transfer of the “Bali Nine” heroin traffickers back to Australia.
Q&A: ‘Anarchy if interim govt fails,’ says official from Bangladesh’s ...
Nov 15, 2024 · Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary-general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) talks to BenarNews during an interview at the party chief’s Gulshan office in Dhaka, Nov. 10, 2024.
Photos: Thousands protest for Maori rights over NZ bill to …
Nov 19, 2024 · Thousands of people gather outside New Zealand's parliament to protest at a proposed law that would redefine the country's founding agreement between Maori and the British Crown, in Wellington, New Zealand.
EXPLAINED: Al-Arqam, the Malaysian sect implicated in a child …
Sep 13, 2024 · Al-Arqam, a banned Islamic sect in Malaysia, is in the spotlight again after 402 children – including some as young as 1 – were rescued from welfare homes during police raids on Sept. 11. Many of these minors are believed to have been trafficked as well as physically and sexually abused, authorities said. At least 159 people …