Gregory Mthembu-SalterThe international tribunal charged with investigating the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 has some significant achievements to its credit. But a series of problematic decisions casts a shadow o
Monday, 28th April, 2025
Support The Morung Express. Your Contributions Matter Click Here
Infocus
-
Brian McCartan Source: AsiaTimesFighting between government forces and ethnic rebel groups in Myanmar’s Karen State has in recent weeks pushed thousands of refugees into neighboring Thailand. The upsurge
-
K. ElaThe churches in all nook and corners of the villages must be made aware and sensitized about the dangers of sending their children outside the state in the name of free education, job, training, mission w
-
Claude ArpiAung San Suu Kyi has just spent her 64th birthday in Burma’s infamous Insein Prison. She has been charged with ‘violating’ the terms of her house arrest. If found guilty, she faces a long term
-
Naga Reconciliation: A Journey of Common Hope, has become a common phrase today. This journey that we have embarked together for the last year and a half has been no smooth sailing. But we have come thus
-
Aditya SinhaTwo Saturdays ago, the bodies of 22-year-old Nilofar and her 17-year-old sister-in-law Asiya were found separately in a stream in Shopian, south Kashmir. They had likely been raped, possibly by secu
-
Stephen KurczySource: AsiaTimesThe remoteness of Cambodia’s northeast once made it an ideal hideout for Vietcong, Khmer Rouge, wildlife poachers and illegal loggers. The same isolation had in recent years dra
-
“No charges! No commissions, as such, for the service we are meant to provide customers” – couple of Bank officials answered back to my ‘deliberate’ provocative query.What a shame! I was made to
-
Mira KamdarA strong, stable Congress government may be good for business, but can it contend with the real, looming threat of environmental catastrophe?Business and financial communities reacted with outright e
-
M.S. PrabhakaraAnxieties about ‘identity’, a catch-all term for a variety of contradictory perceptions and passions by a people about themselves and the ‘Other’, and political mobilisation exploiting su
-
M.S. Swaminathan In its latest election manifesto the Congress pledged to “enact a Right to Food Law that guarantees access to sufficient food for all people, particularly the most vulnerable sectors of
-
Li DatongThe fourth day of June - written as "6.4" in Chinese - never used to have any special significance. But in the last twenty years, since the events that culminated in the early hours of 4 June 1989 in B
-
Tom LodgeTwo years since the establishment of its power-sharing executive following the March 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland assembly, the peace process in the territory appears firmly entrenched. The c
-
Santwana Bhattacharya\ Source: AsiaTimesTwelve days after the very surprising Indian election results were out, 10 days after Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief V Prabhakaran's body was found by the Sri Lan
-
Vaprumu DemoTiring 12 years of negotiation and nearing 60 rounds of exhaustive talks between the NSCN(IM) and the GOI unfortunately, have not yield any desired result beyond the highfaluting rhetoric and decept
-
James PattersonThe anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s apology to Australia’s aboriginal community has come and gone. What difference has it made?“I’d have thought that the Aboriginals would have been pretty ha
-
Forum for Naga ReconciliationStanding at the threshold of the year 2009, we are in what might be called a “Post-Ambivalent” year in the life of the Nagas. The bygone cynicism and skepticism toward “Naga s
Tarsh ThekaekaraMany countries have ill treated and persecuted their indigenous people, often in worse ways than India. But while some leaders like Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have gone on record to ap-
Prashant BhushanThe recent horrendous terror attacks in Mumbai are obviously totally atrocious. They have woken up our elite citizenry of Mumbai and the country to the dangers of terrorism as nothing ever has.
-
Conor GeartyA landmark anniversary is a moment to move beyond complacency and engage in critical self-reflection of the foundation of human rightsThere is much natural jubilation over the fact that the Universa
