Tagged with United Nations

A few months ago, several activist organisations expressed outrage at reports that the UN had invited Burma (Myanmar) to participate in peacekeeping operations (PKOs). The furore has since died down, but Naypyidaw’s critics are reasserting themselves in a number of ways and the question will doubtless arise again. With that in mind, it is helpful […]

Adjunct member of the Griffith Asia Institute,Gordon Weiss, last week publishedan opinion piece for the Newcastle Heraldcommenting on Australia’s opposition to the United Nation’s Sri Lanka war crimes investigation. Gordon Weiss isauthor of The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, and wasUN spokesman in Sri Lanka during […]