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Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts, Forgotten Lives?

Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts, Forgotten Lives?

Overshadowed by the conflict in the former Yugoslavia at roughly the same time, the three conflicts waged in the South Caucasus in the early 1990s remain as neglected by the international media as ever. Over a millio ...

West Papuans illegally detained at PNG Border

West Papuans illegally detained at PNG Border

The father of a West Papuan musician has been detained by police at Vanimo along Papua New Guinea’s border with Indonesia. Ronny Kareni is a bass player in the Taburas band. His father Abraham Kareni and three ...

West Papua – Longing for Merdeka
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West Papua – Longing for Merdeka

'Longing for Merdeka' is a video about the desire of the people of West Papua to gain independence from Indonesia. ...

Rebuttal to U Khin Maung Saw’s Misinformation on Rohingya

Rebuttal to U Khin Maung Saw’s Misinformation on Rohingya

Numerous Crimes Against Humanity have been committed by the Burmese military regime and non-state actors against the Rohingya people ...

Australia’s gutless approach to the genocide in Papua

Australia’s gutless approach to the genocide in Papua

"It is in the interest of the Indonesian military and therefore in Australia’s commercial interests to provoke and prolong conflict in West Papua as well as other areas in the Indonesian archipelago." ...

The Persecution of the Rohingya

The Persecution of the Rohingya

The Rohingya are one of Burma’s most oppressed groups – an enormous statement when one considers the horrendous overall context. ...

West Papuan refugees’ Village Burnt Down in Papua New Guinea
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West Papuan refugees’ Village Burnt Down in Papua New Guinea

Shows West Papuan refugees returning to their village for the first time since it was burnt 3 weeks earlier by special operation "Sunset Merona" led by Papua New Guinea Police and Defense Force. ...

Civil War Resumes in Burma- Kachin Independence Organization Declares Defensive

Civil War Resumes in Burma- Kachin Independence Organization Declares Defensive

Burma’s main ethnic armed group, the Kachin Independence Organization, today ordered its troops in Kachin State and Northern Shan State to stage defensive war against Burma's Army, warning that the war would be wid ...

Kyrgyzstan: Lessons for the Arab Spring?

Kyrgyzstan: Lessons for the Arab Spring?

It has been one year since bloody ethnic clashes in the Kyrgyz city of Osh shattered the optimism that followed the revolution deposing authoritarian dictator Kurmanbek Bakiyev...longstanding tensions between Kyrgyz ...

ROHINGYA: Mothering Refugees- Kutu Palong Makeshift Camp
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ROHINGYA: Mothering Refugees- Kutu Palong Makeshift Camp

With neither hope of asylum in Bangladesh nor returning to their native Arakan State, 500 miles northwest of the Burmese capital Yangon, these Muslim Rohingya women and children survive within the camp by taking refu ...

The Syrian Crisis…

The Syrian Crisis…

As the Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad continues to arrest and slaughter demonstrators on the streets of Syria, Tayyip Erdoğan – Prime Minister of neighbouring Turkey, is being further drawn into the ...

Rohingya Death Limbo

Rohingya Death Limbo

The Rohingya ethnic minority of Burma are trapped between severe repression in their homeland and abuse in neighboring countries. ...

The Most Persecuted People In The World

The Most Persecuted People In The World

The Rohingya are a Muslim minority people from the North-West of Burma. They are among the poorest ethnic groups in the world. Burma’s military regime has denied them citizenship and refused to let them own land. T ...

Struggle in Paradise – West Papua
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Struggle in Paradise – West Papua

STRUGGLE IN PARADISE Follows the extraordinary journey of Herman Wainggai, a West Papuan independence leader and former political prisoner, living in exile in Australia. ...

Herman Wainggai’s story on Australian TV
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Herman Wainggai’s story on Australian TV

Herman Wainggai is the nephew of the West Papuan independence leader Dr. Thomas Wainggai, who died 14 years ago in a Jakarta prison while serving a life term for raising the West Papuan flag. ...

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