https://www.scmp.com/rss/325927/feed Daniel Maxwell is a writer and educator who has been living and teaching in Southeast Asia since the late 1990s en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Four years after the military coup in Thailand, the public are eager for the National Council for Peace and Order to deliver the promised November 2018 election.  On coming to power, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha assured people the country would return to democracy the next year. Each year since, there has been another delay and, in last October, he promised that voters would head to the polls in 2018.  But, in recent months, there have been signs that the election may be delayed until 2019.... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2130145/thailands-junta-prepares-delay-democratic-dream-yet-again?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2130145/thailands-junta-prepares-delay-democratic-dream-yet-again?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jan 2018 06:25:00 +0000 The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Eastern Myanmar is being exposed by international media organisations, pressuring the country’s leaders to end these brutal human rights violations. What remains unreported is that the Myanmar military’s conduct has been a pattern of behaviour against minority ethnic groups for decades. While the international community focuses on today’s atrocities in Rakhine State, government forces attack and persecute ethnic communities in other regions of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2122208/rohingya-muslims-arent-only-ones-being-persecuted-myanmars?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2122208/rohingya-muslims-arent-only-ones-being-persecuted-myanmars?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Nov 2017 04:13:02 +0000