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Opinion 9 years ago
Breathing without living: the plight of Christians in Pakistan
“The year 2017 will be one of peace and love,” Naheed Naz told me. “There is nothing in the scriptures about it, but Jesus puts feelings in your heart about what is going to happen. It is a matter of faith and we believe in it.”
National 9 years ago
Aung San Suu Kyi’s inaction over Rohingya issue condemned
Hopes that Myanmar’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi can resolve the ongoing humanitarian crisis engulfing Rohingya Muslims in her country have begun to fade, as she has not shown any sign she will take sides with the oppressed minority, a Burmese rights activist has said.
Opinion 9 years ago
Jakarta: Rohingya's last hope
The security situation for 1.3 million Muslim Rohingyas living in Myanmar is becoming increasingly untenable. Put simply, if Jakarta doesn’t respond soon, it will be too late. If this crises can’t be averted through careful diplomacy, the flow of refugees from Myanmar is likely to rapidly reach a magnitude that will overwhelm the region’s capacity to respond.
Opinion 9 years ago
Lessons learned from Nov. 4 protest
People who are annoyed by the protest often intelligibly discuss complicated democracy-related concepts on social media but fail to back these up with a vigorous movement on the ground.The same people may also be satisfied with intellectual seminars or television commentaries but are unable to convert sophisticated discussions into a robust movement. In short, they hate the rising fundamentalism sufficiently but are too incompetent to channel this hatred into a systematic counterpoise.
Opinion 9 years ago
Trumpism, denialism and our destructive selves
Then there is the denialism related to the persecution — including violence — of religious minorities (Christian groups, Ahmadiyah, Gafatar and other groups) and members of the LGBT community. The perpetrators of violence are at best given light sentences, if at all, while the victims are persecuted and criminalized even more.
Opinion 9 years ago
Crimean Tatars in Russia: Truth and fiction
It has become fashionable of late in swathes of the Western mass media to write about the so-called oppressions of the Crimean Tatars, the people living on the Crimean peninsula in the Crimean federal district of the Russian Federation. It is interesting that a few articles on this issue have appeared in the Indonesian press as well. In particular, they mention the alleged closing of cultural organizations of this ethnic minority, harassment on the part of the Russian authorities and other, clearly invented forms of oppression.
