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Here come the men in black, again
Spectrum, Published on 16/02/2014
» He’s become widely known as the “Popcorn Shooter” due to the corn seed sack he hid his military rifle in at the Laksi gun battle last month — and depending on what side of politics you fall on, he represents either a white knight or a return of the sinister “men in black”.
Open slaughter of elephants
Spectrum, Published on 24/11/2013
» Ninety-three kilometres along the newly built Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw highway, Myint Wai stepped into the jungle where he recently discovered the carcasses of several dead elephants. Making his way deeper into the woods of the Bago mountain range, he spoke to Spectrum about the hunters who killed the animals to trade their skins and valuable tusks.
Kabul's traffickers are in for the long haul
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 17/11/2013
» Kabul's black market for illegal travel is still doing a brisk trade despite the crackdown from Australia's newly installed government on people smuggling. However, the logistics required to circumvent the authorities and ensure a safe trip have become more complex and smugglers are under pressure to maximise profits. Fake passports, forged visas, tickets to Southeast Asia, sometimes via the Middle East, and boats to Australia and elsewhere are often available for about US$25,000 (788,000 baht) a head, more than double the costs the smugglers first charged when they began plying the Kangaroo Route in the late 1990s.
Pol Pot's henchmen damned by evidence
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 27/10/2013
» For more than two years, the latest instalment of the Khmer Rouge tribunal has provided a blow-by-blow account of Pol Pot's bloody reign of terror and the inner workings of the political machine blamed for the deaths of between 1.7 million and 2.2 million people.
A different killer lurking in the forest
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 29/09/2013
» Yoo-ae, 18, could not decide whether or not to leave the cemetery. The Karen girl's mother and friends were urging her to go, but she replied, ''No, I want to stay a little longer,'' her eyes filling with tears.
Youthful daring challenges the status quo and dirty tricks
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 28/07/2013
» Throughout Cambodia's election campaign the politically outgunned opposition has put in an astonishing performance. Fuelled by youthful exuberance, flash mobs of up to 3,000 form and trumpet the virtues of change as supporters ride in twos, threes and fours, through the capital on motorbikes.
A father's three-year search for justice
Spectrum, Published on 21/04/2013
» "I'm not looking for revenge, I'm just looking for justice," said Rory McDonald.
Out of the meat trade, into agony
Spectrum, Published on 21/10/2012
» Photos taken immediately following a raid on a canine meat traders' compound in Sakhon Nakhon province in January show dogs seemingly relieved to have escaped from the tiny cages into which they had been crammed. Wide-eyed puppies can be seen among well-groomed dogs with collars _ which, along with their ease among volunteer workers, suggests many of the animals supplying the illicit trade were people's pets.
New plan needed in fight to douse southern flames
Spectrum, Published on 12/08/2012
» The recent surge of violence in the South has spurred the government to once again review its strategy of how to deal with violence in the strife-torn area.
Khmer Rouge justice a race against time
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 27/05/2012
» Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal has been dogged by controversy since the first public hearings were held in November 2007, including allegations of corruption, funding issues and disputes over the scope of the tribunals.