Forum-Asia

16.02.2005 Thaksin Shinawatra, prime minister of Thailand, won an overwhelming victory in the recent general election. Will he direct his dominant political strength to arrest the worrying decline in basic freedoms and rights enjoyed by the Thai people?

22.07.2003 Bangladesh is forcing Rohingya refugees to go back to Myanmar where they are oppressed and persecuted by the military junta. Cases of coercion and intimidation of the refugees have been reported from the Kutupalong and Nayapara refugee camps in Bangladesh.

09.05.2003 Military action cannot be justified under the pretext of bringing peace to Aceh, an Asian rights group said yesterday in response to an Indonesian government threat to resume military operations if the rebel movement in the province failed to disarm within two weeks and renounce its demand for independence.