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Now it’s too late

Now it’s too late

As Rohingya villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine State were set alight last month, the military and civilians lined up to shoot, hack and beat defenceless villagers to death as they tried to escape. In the last few weeks, a mass exodus of more than a quarter of a million...
Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s Long Road to Democracy

Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s Long Road to Democracy

“A share in two revolutions”, Thomas Paine wrote to George Washington in 1789, “is living to some purpose!” That same sentiment may well be applied to the Burmese leader Aung San, who didn’t just share in two colonial struggles, but led Burma’s battles for...
China, the United States and the Politics of Human Rights

China, the United States and the Politics of Human Rights

It’s become a matter of routine that every year the United States and China – from their respective positions of moral superiority – take part in a diplomatic tit-for-tat in which they each document the other’s human rights violations. In America, this...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Colluding With Tyranny

Aung San Suu Kyi: Colluding With Tyranny

Reflecting on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, George Orwell wrote that: Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. Aung San Suu Kyi, writing after being...
Horse Trading Human Rights in Myanmar

Horse Trading Human Rights in Myanmar

With the international community developing deeper economic interests in Myanmar, the Rohingya’s struggle is only going to become tougher. The metaphorical stick has been holstered and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Myanmar is exploding. According to a report by...