Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission & Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong While scientists and health practitioners have found ways to cure or alleviate many forms of […]
Volume 06 Number 5-6
Introduction: Burma, political psychosis & legal dementia
Editorial board, article 2 The defining characteristic of the crackdown on the largest protests in Burma in almost two decades this September 2007 was its patent illegality by all standards […]
A non-existent criminal justice system
Burma Desk, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong The existence of a justice system, in the true sense of the word, cannot be inferred from the existence of a building […]
The alms bowl and the duty to defy
Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong On Wednesday, 15 August 2007, Burma’s military government increased the costs of fuels, over which it holds a monopoly, by up to five times […]
The Hinthada 6: Victims of a criminally insane system
Yoma 3, Thailand & Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong On 17 April 2007 four men travelled to Hinthada (Henzada) Township, about 30 miles west of Rangoon, for a human […]
The right to provoke
Awzar Thi, Member, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong In August 2007, rallies against rising prices in Burma were met with familiar violence. In the former capital, Rangoon, government-organised gangs […]
They killed your son, they’ll kill you too” The struggle for justice for Maung Ne Zaw
In July 2006 the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued an appeal on the death in police custody of Maung Ne Zaw, a 28-year-old man in Kachin State, on the border […]
Ten case studies in legal dementia
U Tin Nyein: Jailed because someone else flooded his land U Tin Nyein, 46, farmer, son of U Khwe, residing in Kwunthi Chaung village, Kyun village tract, Bogalay Township, Pyapon […]
Appendix I: International community is failing the people of Myanmar again
1. On 15 August 2007, the Government of Myanmar increased the cost of all vehicle and gener[Uator fuels, over which it holds a monopoly, without prior announcement. As has been […]
Appendix II: Burma—The myth of state stability & a system of injustice
During 2006 Burma continued to be characterised by wanton criminality of state officers at all levels, and the absence of the rule of law and rational government. Throughout the year, […]