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Islamist terrorism is real but some responses to it are bad

States have a need and a duty to combat terrorism on their soil but this does not mean that every method of doing so is a good idea.

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What does the coup in Myanmar mean for the Rohingya?

The Myanmar army has used the cover of counterterrorism to call for military involvement and launched a genocide. This occurs all too often in our world.

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How religious extremism begets religious extremism

It is time for the Modi government to disavow violent Hindu extremism in Assam and elsewhere as well as time for all nations to crack down on Islamist terrorism

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December 2, 2004: Killing of Buddhist teacher in southern Thailand

A Buddhist teacher was gunned down by so-called ‘southern separatists’ in Thailand in December 2004 in yet another violent act in a decades-long conflict

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Can someone be charged with ‘advocating genocide’?

I think we all agree that the worst crime humans can commit is to try to, or succeed in, killing whole races.

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Refugee camp leader hacked to death (June 18, 2018)

On this day in 2018, members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army brutally dismembered a camp leader in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.

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19 killed in TNLA rebel attacks near China border (May 12, 2018)

On this day in 2018, the TNLA killed 19 people, mostly civilians, in Myanmar Shan State in retribution for army attacks against another ethnic army.

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Bombings in Myanmar (May 7, 2005)

Two bombs exploded at a shopping mall in the Myanmar capital killing 11 and wounding 130 in an attack blamed on Karen ethnic group.

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When other people’s disputes come to our shores

Canada is proudly a land of many nations, but sometimes homeland conflicts come to roost.

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February 18, 1983 | ‘Nellie’ Massacres in Assam, India

On this day on 1983, a massacre unfolded over an election in which then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had allowed Bangladeshi migrants to vote.