New Mandala

New Mandala readers who take an interest in the human rights situation in Thailand will be keen to learn about an innovative blog project.  In the run-up to the appointment of a new batch of National Human Rights Commissioners it is asking for ideas on who should be given the nod.  The current group of Commissioners were appointed [...]

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Macquarie University economist and long-time Burma-watcher Sean Turnell has been interviewed by The Irrawaddy.  The transcript is available here. 

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Faced with this spectacle, this machine of death, hate and madness, one hesitates between sorrow, pity, a desire to see these assassins brought before an international criminal tribunal that could try these kinds of crimes, and, finally, nostalgia for the days when France created and imposed upon the world the right and the duty to [...]

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