Author: Grant Peck
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Myanmar will start drafting 5,000 people a month into the military soon. Some think of fleeing
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Myanmar’s military government says it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the April festival marking the country’s traditional New Year
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Myanmar army deserters confirm atrocities against Rohingya
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BANGKOK (AP) — Two soldiers who deserted from Myanmar’s army have testified on video that they were instructed by commanding officers to “shoot all that you see and that you hear” in villages where minority Rohingya Muslims lived, a human rights group said Tuesday. The comments appear to be the first public confession by soldiers…
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Cruise ship turned away in other ports anchors off Cambodia
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SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia • A cruise ship turned away by four Asian and Pacific governments due to virus fears anchored Thursday off Cambodia for health checks on its 2,200 passengers and crew. The Westerdam was unwelcome elsewhere even though operator Holland America Line said no cases of the COVID-19 viral illness have been confirmed among the…
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Quake damages scores of Myanmar’s heritage Bagan temples
BAGAN, Myanmar — It was a time of conquest and conversions. Above all, it was a time of construction, on a scale never seen before. Over 250 years, from the 11th century onwards, the rulers of Bagan built more than 10,000 magnificent religious monuments. The stupas, temples and monasteries became the defining emblems of Bagan,…
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Armed Thai troops patrol Bangkok business district
BANGKOK — Soldiers in full combat gear garrisoned the Thai capital’s central business district Monday, laying razor wire across sidewalks in front of astonished tourists as they faced off with defiant demonstrators demanding a change of government. So-called “Red Shirt” protesters accused the military of preparing “a killing field” — the latest confrontation in Thailand’s…