South East Asia Terrorist Groups

W. SCOTT THOMPSON: No end in sight to Mindanao problem

nst.com.my     1 hr ago   1 related          

LARGE acts have large consequences, some of them unintended. When Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines in 1972 and confiscated all private guns, the Muslim Moros went into rebellion. In Manila, private...                    

Question Time - The Return of...

wordpress.com     11 hrs ago          

I lost the will to answer questions there for a few weeks, but now that Friday afternoons are mine again we are all systems go. To be honest, when I talked to you about scrofles (here) I thought I had made up the word...                    

Sri Lanka: Air force fighter jets bomb rebel base

iht.com     14 hrs ago   43 related          

Sri Lankan air force jets bombed a Tamil Tiger rebel base in the embattled north Friday, while ground battles across the region killed 34 rebels and one government soldier, the military said. The fighter jets pounded a...                    

End looms for Tamil Tigers as army is set to take final stronghold, says 'Scotsman'

asiantribune.com     21 hrs ago          

By Walter Jayawardhana Jason Motlagh , reporting for ‘The Scotman’ of the United kingdom published from Edinburgh said the end looms for Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, as aggressive Sri Lankan government forces continue to...                    

H1B Worker has to go back... The Ironic Twist is that it is from India he has to go back!

ittoolbox.com     18 hrs ago          

Nari Kannan posted 2 hours ago | Comments (0) Here's a personal story about a H1B visitor that needs to go back. One of our employees in India, let's call him Joe, just to protect the innocent! Joe is a bright, young,...                    

Malaysia deports 4 militant suspects, arrests six

alertnet.org     17 hrs ago          

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Malaysia has deported four Indonesian suspected militants who had been held under the country's tough security laws, and made six new arrests, a rights group said on Friday. The four, held...                    

Sri Lanka: Tamil Diaspora must act to prevent humanitarian tragedy - MP

tamilnet.com     19 hrs ago   2 related          

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Member of Parliament from Jaffna District, Selvarajah Gajendran, on Tuesday, urged the Tamil Diaspora to provide assistance to local aid agencies working among the IDPs in Vanni and to...                    

Political Solution - Miriam Coronel Ferrer

abs-cbnnews.com     yesterday          

If not the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, some other corrective power-sharing arrangement that would give Moros a wider berth for governance would have to be crafted because, to paraphrase Manuel Quezon,...                    

Civilians urged to move to Govt territory

bbc.co.uk     yesterday   2 related          

Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, has urged tens of thousands of people displaced by fighting in the north to leave areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He said leaflets would be...                    

Sri Lanka advances on rebel base

csmonitor.com     27-Aug-2008   5 related          

While the military is making gains on the Tamil Tigers, it could become mired in guerrilla attacks. Reporter Jason Motlagh discusses the heavy pressure that journalists in Sri Lanka face. After 25 years of fighting and...                    

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