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The past few years have seen a proliferation of legal cases against Myanmar’s military, for crimes committed before and since the military coup of February 2021. Many of these efforts have been undertaken on the principle of “universal jurisdiction,” which allows the victims of atrocities to bring charges in foreign courts against particular crimes of international concern, regardless of where the crime was committed or the nationality of the victims and perpetrators. Among the most recent was filed in Australia by Legal Action Worldwide (LAW), an international legal advocacy organization, alleging crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Myanmar…

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In a recent interview with Reuters, Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced that she and senior party colleagues plan to return from India to Bangladesh around December. Hasina’s Awami League (AL) government was ousted from power on August 5, 2024, following weeks of mass protests. Soon after her resignation, she fled Bangladesh for India and has been living there since then. Hasina was tried in absentia by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal over the deadly crackdown during the July-August 2024 protests. In November 2025, she was convicted of crimes against humanity under the doctrine of superior command responsibility and sentenced…

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Early this year, on April 18, Laeeq Ahmed Cheema, a 46-year-old Ahmadi, went to an Ahmadiyya mosque in Karachi – the kind of place Pakistan’s anti-Ahmadi laws make dangerous even to name as a mosque. He did not return home. Outside the worship site, a mob had gathered and Cheema was beaten to death. According to the Associated Press, the Ahmadi community blamed the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a hardline Islamist religio-political party known for mobilizing around blasphemy and anti-Ahmadi campaigns.  Less than a week later, on April 24, Muhammad Asif, a 19-year-old Ahmadi youth from Bhullair in Kasur district, was…

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Following a bumpy NATO conference, air and space military leaders from the United States, United Kingdom, and 50 other countries will gather in London this week to discuss future military strategy as President Trump continues his push for allies to spend more on defense.Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the U.S. Air Force chief of staff; Gen. Chance Saltzman, the U.S. Space Force’s top uniformed leader; and top U.K. military and government leaders are the scheduled keynote speakers at the Global Air and Space Chiefs’ Conference in London on Wednesday and Thursday. U.K. military leaders plan to discuss strategies for its growing F-35…

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