Laotian human rights activist Sombath Somphone has most likely been a victim of ‘enforced disappearance’. Sombath – winner of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership who made powerful enemies including corrupt state officials, the landed elite and business leaders, and high level politicians – has been missing for 300 days.
Read more: Where is Sombath Somphone?
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At the 1955 Baling talks in Kedah, Chin Peng insisted that he could only bring his men out of the jungle to lay down their arms if they were allowed to enter the political process as a legal party. Under British advice the Tunku would not agree to this, or indeed to any significant concession to the communists once they surrendered, and thus causing the talks to fail.
Read more: Chin Peng, an obituary
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It is necessary to point out that despite the American strong position on the use of chemical weapons -- presently with regard to the Syria civil war -- prior to 1975, the USA did not ratify a treaty to ban the use of chemical weapons in warfare.
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Even if their views are not heard, an increasing number of Malays have begun to speak up against Umno’s dead-end racial strategy.
Read more: Alternative messages to the Malay heartland: Will they be heard?
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Ideologi patriotisme palsu dan Islamisasi telah menjadikan suara hati para pentadbir Melayu kaku, suatu keadaan, seperti kata orang tua-tua Melayu kita: hilang hati perut. Ia bermakna golongan birokrat tersebut tidak lagi boleh menghayati natijah tindakan mereka terhadap orang lain yang bukan daripada kumpulan mereka.
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