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A new Nobel Peace Prize for Myanmar?
Aung San Suu Kyi, now Myanmar’s de facto civilian leader was held under house arrest by the military junta for 15 years. This followed the overwhelming 1991 election victory of her National League for Democracy, which the defeated generals refused to accept.NLD members were murdered, jailed, tortured or simply disappeared. Aung San Suu Kyi, however, lived in relative comfort in her lakeside Rangoon home with a small staff and was able to smuggle out communications to her supporters and the international media. One of her core messages was that resistance to the military must be passive. She did not want violence. Yet in 2007, following major government fuel price hikes, there were destructive riots led by Buddhist monks. In widely-shared footage, Aung San Suu Kyi made a brief appearance...
September 05, 2018

A new Nobel Peace Prize for Myanmar?

McCain’s funeral was not 'bipartisan'
There was one significant absentee from the funeral of Sen. John McCain. The President of the United States of America was flying off to play golf. Most of the liberal media were quick to point this out, just as they seized on the barely veiled attacks of Trump delivered by those who eulogized McCain. Instead they gloried in the “bipartisan” moment, which brought together all McCain’s other political opponents to honor his memory.This emotional, high-profile send-off for a man who served his country, first in war and then in politics, was however troubling. McCain, who died of a brain tumor, had spent the last weeks of his life organizing his funeral down to the very last detail. And one big detail, arguably the most important, was that Donald Trump should not be invited.It would not...
September 04, 2018

McCain’s funeral was not 'bipartisan'

A failed policy and its aftermath
There is only one conclusion one can draw from the annual report of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on demonitization and that is not very flattering to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The much-hyped demonitization, it turns out, was a miserable failure in its stated objectives and an unmitigated disaster in its unintended consequences.It was on Nov. 8, 2016 that Modi announced that all 500 and 1000-rupee notes (86 percent of the currency in circulation) would be banned in four hours’ time. This, he said, would flush out untaxed wealth being hoarded by wealthy Indians, help digitize the economy and defeat terrorists and criminal gangs, starving them of much needed funds.People were given several weeks to exchange their demonetized currency for new notes at banks. But new notes could not be...
September 03, 2018

A failed policy and its aftermath

What’s happening to Germany?
AT first, German officials blamed fake news peddled on social media sites for helping to stoke rioting last week in the eastern city of Chemnitz, following the murder of a 35-year-old German man, allegedly by asylum seekers from Iraq and Syria. Then came word that an arrest warrant which names one of the chief suspects in the stabbing had been leaked and that the city’s police may have been infiltrated by the far-right.In truth, neither reason is sufficient enough to explain the most serious neo-Nazi violence in Germany seen in years. From last Monday night’s incident which witnessed gangs attacking foreigners, giving the Hitler salute and chanting: “A dead foreigner for every dead German”, it is clear that Germany is facing something much more challenging than false Facebook posts...
September 02, 2018

What’s happening to Germany?

Double blow to the Palestinians
IF US President Donald Trump is serious about capping the number of recognized Palestinian refugees at only half a million, and end all US financial aid to the Palestinians, it will be an extremely unjust one-two punch. Israeli TV recently announced that a report due to be published at the beginning of September by the administration will cap the number of recognized Palestinian refugees at half a million — around a tenth of the present UN number. It said the US is set to announce that it will not accept the UN’s definition of a Palestinian refugee, which states that refugee status is passed from one generation to the next. Stripping millions of Palestinians across the region of their status as refugees is a highly evocative issue, tied to the Palestinian “right of return”...
September 01, 2018

Double blow to the Palestinians

Can Russia really afford to be mighty?
WHAT is said to be the largest concentration of Russian troops since the epic final battles of the World War II, which crushed Hitler’s armies, takes place next month. The maneuvers involving 300,000 Russian soldiers, 36,000 tanks and other armored vehicles, a thousand warplanes and two naval fleets will also include smaller contingents of troops from China and Mongolia. This massive demonstration of Moscow’s military might is called “Vostok” or “East” and is being held far from Russia’s European borders with rival NATO powers. But it is clearly designed to send a message to Washington and its military allies that the Kremlin now disposes revitalized armed forces that underpin President Vladimir Putin’s drive to re-establish his country as a superpower on a par with the...
August 31, 2018

Can Russia really afford to be mighty?

America’s businessman president
DONALD Trump won the White House by making a virtue of the fact he was not a politician from the “Washington swamp”, but rather a highly successful businessman. And in office he has demonstrated all the arm-twisting, browbeating talents that allowed him to build up his eponymous empire.His view of organizations, be they countries, institutions or corporates, is that they are all about those in charge. Trump always wants to eyeball the people with whom he is dealing. And that excruciatingly painful handshake of his, perhaps demonstrates that if his greeting can hurt so much, how much greater will be the pain if he walks away. Hence his desire to get face-to-face with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. The president is obviously less good at larger meetings. He...
August 30, 2018

America’s businessman president

Who is the real ‘enemy’ in Iran?
THE Iranian parliament has just fired Economy Minister Masoud Karbasian. The move, which is likely to end in Karbasian’s impeachment, was undoubtedly prompted by the country’s Guardian Council, the 12-man body directed by supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Legislators also summoned ayatollah Hassan Rouhani, the largely powerless president, to explain his government’s failure to sort out problems in the banking and tax systems and its inability to halt a growing economic collapse which had seen the currency halve in value while the price of staples mushrooms.Rouhani admitted that ordinary Iranians were losing faith in the government which was facing critical problems, that he blamed on US sanctions. Having made this point, he proceeded to grandstand, vowing that the country would not bow to...
August 29, 2018

Who is the real ‘enemy’ in Iran?

Aung Sang Suu Kyi's feet of clay
IT is hard to view the damning UN report into the military-led genocide against Myanmar’s Muslin Rohingya community with anything other than profound anger. And that anger is all the greater for the fact that until now the international community has largely stood by and let this barbarism happen.Long before the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar was set up in March 2017, it was blatantly clear that appalling crimes were being committed in Rakhine province by civilian Buddhist fanatics with, at the very least, the open connivance of the police and army. When the authorities forced the Rohingya into concentration camps “for their own protection”, the military’s mask dropped. Such a brutal expedient was first developed by the British in the Boer War in...
August 28, 2018

Aung Sang Suu Kyi's feet of clay

Agony of divided Korean families
IMAGINE yourself in the condition of a 92-year-old mother seeing her 72-year-old son after an interval of 68 years. Or in the role of a 70-year-old woman who keeps asking her 100-year-old father whether he recognized her. Such were the tearful scenes one witnessed at the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea last week. They were among a group of 83 elderly North Koreans who gathered at the resort for a three-day reunion with their South Korean relatives. Members of families divided during the Korean War, they were meeting for the first time after South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s Chairman Kim Jong Un signed a declaration in April this year to facilitate such reunions. The event went until Wednesday, giving families a total of 11 hours to spend together over three...
August 27, 2018

Agony of divided Korean families

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