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Over 120 Israeli teenagers announce their refusal to enlist in the army

On the last day of the school year in Israel, June 19th, a letter from teens announcing their refusal to enlist in the Israeli army was distributed in thousands of copies across several schools around the country. The letter, titled…

Expelling Rohingyas from Rakhine: The Greatest Strategic Error

In the game of geopolitics, perhaps the most important rule is ‘self-interest first’. In Rakhine, Myanmar’s every internal actor, including the military junta, the civilian govt. (NLD) and the United League of Arakan (ULA) or the Arakan Army (AA) sought…

Sudan: risk of ethnic cleansing in West Darfur

Three months after fighting broke out between the regular Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum, the Association for Threatened Peoples (APM, Associazione per i popoli minacciati) warns of the potential conflagration. Fighting has now spread to…

Winds of change: changing narratives for Rohingya community in Myanmar

Myanmar’s longest-running civil disobedience campaign against its military, the Tatmadaw, has created something that was never seen before: a unified Myanmar in the “burning state.” Not only that, but this solidarity has also changed Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic politics. After the…