Tag: Rule of Law / Justice
Thailand: Southern Separatists Target Women
Separatist groups in Thailand’s southern border provinces have killed at least five Thai Buddhist women, mutilating three of their bodies, since February 2014, Human Rights Watch said today.
The insurgents should immediately end their attacks targeting civilians, which are war crimes.
“Southern insurgents are killing Buddhist women and spreading terror by...
Suhakam Says Hamstrung By Lack Of Enforcement Powers
KUALA LUMPUR: Taken to task for failing to stop police brutality, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) said today it has been hamstrung by a lack of enforcement powers.
“Although Suhakam has come out with a number of recommendations that are aimed at improving the human rights situation in...
Burnings and beheadings strike fear in south Thailand
The recent burning and beheading of female victims in Thailand’s southern Muslim provinces marks a renewed campaign of terror by insurgent groups, according to a Human Rights Watch statement released today.
At least three Thai Buddhist women have been killed and mutilated by insurgents since February, according to HRW.
“Southern insurgents...
Myanmar: Rohingya Muslims Can Call Themselves Bengali
TEHRAN (FNA)- Myanmar will not allow Muslims to register as ‘Rohingya’ in the country’s first census in three decades despite UN assurances.
Ye Htut, a government spokesman, says Rohingya Muslims can call themselves Bengali as they register for the first census in the past 30 years, press tv reported. The...
End police abuses in Malaysia
The Malaysian government should urgently adopt reforms to ensure accountability for deaths in custody and unjustified police shootings, Human Rights Watch has said in a new report.
Independent, external oversight of the Royal Malaysia Police is needed to end police cover-ups, excessive secrecy, and obstruction of investigation into abuses.
The 102-page...
Atrocities Mark New Nightmare of Mutilated Women in Thailand’s Southern War
NEW YORK: Separatist groups in Thailand's southern border provinces have killed at least five Thai Buddhist women, mutilating three of their bodies, since February 2014, Human Rights Watch said today.
The insurgents should immediately end their attacks targeting civilians, which are war crimes, Human Rights Watch said.
''Southern insurgents are killing...
INDONESIA: Police officers in Nabire assault three Papuans over a petty fight
According to an activist of KINGMI (Gospel Tabernacle Church) Papua, Gilion Somau visited a futsal pitch in Kalibobo, Nabire, in the morning of 14 March 2014. Gilion and his two brothers, Jery Somau and Nicolaus Somau, were waiting for their turn to play futsal (mini football) in the pitch...
BURMA/MYANMAR: Farmers falsely accused of trespass and destruction of a teak field are prosecuted and imprisoned
Magyi Pin, Kyar Inn village is located on Dandalon village tract, Pandaung Township, Pyay District, in the Western Part of the Bago Region. In 1966, government made a law in order to make paddy fields in the forest reserve area and gave the farmers legal documents for it. The...
UN expert alarmed at worsening human rights situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
7 April 2014 – An independent United Nations expert today sounded the alarm on the deteriorating human rights situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, adding that the evacuation of aid workers following recent attacks on the humanitarian community would have severe consequences for life-saving work in the area.
“Recent developments in...
INDONESIA: A detainee found dead in police custody in Tangerang
According to LBH Jakarta, Eric Christian Soemantri was found dead hanging in the toilet of his cell at Tangerang District Police Station on 6 March 2014. Eric’s wife firstly learned of the death of her husband after receiving a text message from the girlfriend of another detainee at 5.30...
