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Cambodia: Free Human Rights Defenders

Messrs Ou Virak, Pen Bonnar, Chhay Thy and Sok Ratha, all questioned over land rights activism.

(SALEM) - Four Cambodian land rights activists were have been summoned and questioned by police for their advocacy.

In fact two of those in police custody; Pen Bonnar and Chhay Thy, have been on the government's radar since they began investigating the land conflict between local ethnic minority groups in 1998.

Rohingyas are not Regarded as Human Beings in Myanmar

One man was shot dead in front of his home.

(LONDON) - On 20th October, 2012, at 9:00 p.m., a group of Nasaka from Pa-Nyaung Pin Gyi (Daung Kharli) Nasaka camp, Maungdaw south, entered Gawdu Tha Yah village tract, Naw Yah Fara, Maungdaw south, and chased three Rohingya youths to arrest.

These Rohingyas were walking about in the village road since the Section-144 effects from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.

Are the Afghans Security Forces Ready for Turnover of Security in 2014?

The US is committed to Afghanistan until 2014, when will the Afghan Security Forces be ever ready if we don’t wean them off the bottle?

(KABUL) - Americans in the United States are unaware of the daily security details that U.S. Forces have to endure in Afghanistan.

One such detail that U.S. Forces are doing in the capital city of Kabul is maintaining movement of traffic on Friday and Saturday due to the large majority of Afghan Police and Army are off for their weekend.

The Rohingya Problem: How to Solve?

Rohingya elimination is a Myanmar national project.

(BANGKOK) - Millions of ethnic minorities are now internally displaced as a result of forced migration or what is called the ‘push’ factors.

A larger number has been forced out to seek asylum outside as unwanted refugees in places like Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Breaking News: Shooter Opens Fire at Spa Leaving 3 Dead and 4 Injured

Suspect in deadly Azana Spa shooting reportedly still at large

(BROOKFIELD, WI) - Police in Brookfield, Wisconsin say at least three people are dead after a man opened fire at a spa around 11 a.m. Four people were were injured.

It happened at an upper-scale shopping mall in Brookfield which is located west of Milwaukee.

American Values

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. --Samuel Butler

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - In a eulogy for American poet Robert Frost, John F. Kennedy said:

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Random Acts: the Man from Iron Mountain... Up In Michigan

There's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ~Scott Adams

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - The year was 1959. We were driving, in fact moving, my wife and I and our two small boys, from Edmonton to Toronto.

Second day out, in Manitoba, we pulled into a rest area a few miles from Portage La Prairie.

British `Channel 4` labeled `highly irresponsible` for `Big Fat Gypsy Weddings`

Television was a powerful medium and it could have been used in a more positive and educative way voicing European Roma apartheid.

(RENO, NV) - Hindus have blamed “Channel 4” of United Kingdom for acting highly irresponsibly in its smash hit documentary series “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings”.

They say it resulted in adding more misery to the lives of already maltreated European Gypsy (Roma) community.

Comrades in Arms

From the Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - I received this letter from an ex-soldier.

Hi Mr. Hathaway,

I got your letter (forwarded) asking for information for your book. To answer your first question, Yes, I'm enjoying living in Holland. I'm becoming the little Dutch girl -- the little Black Dutch girl, but that doesn't bother people here. They're very tolerant and internationally minded.

`Brotherhood - War Alone is the Reason for the Decline of Eelam Tamils!`

ENDLF'S retort to the untrue and poisonous statements of Pazha Nedumaran.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - In his article under the title "The Brotherhood - War was begun by Karunanidhi" written 'Junior Vikatan' - a Tamil weekly - twice magazine - Mr. Pazha Nedumaran has expressed very incorrect reports about our ENDLF (Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front).

For a very long time, he has been in the endeavour of converting history into imagination.