‘Comfort Women’ Joining Islamic State

Published on Sep 21, 2014 by Luke Hunt

Reports that Malaysian women, among others, were abandoning their homes and heading to the Middle East to serve in jihad al-nikah (sexual jihad) as “comfort women” have drawn a combination of disbelief and protests from the Islamic community. The reports have come from Malaysian news sources. Police say they are investigating the reports, which “did not come from official channels.”Read more from Luke Hunt in  The Diplomat..

Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei Must Fight Islamic State

Published on Sep 7, 2014 by Luke Hunt

With the Western world predominantly reinventing the “Coalition of the Willing” and dispatching arms and air support to Kurdistan, where the Peshmerga have stood alone in battling the Islamic State, pressure is rightly being applied to Southeast Asia to pitch-in, particularly ASEAN’s three predominantly Muslim members: Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat.  .

Khmer Rouge Leaders Guilty of War Crimes, Jailed for Life

Published on Aug 11, 2014 by Luke Hunt

Surviving henchmen of Pol Pot guilty of crimes against humanityWritten by Luke Hunt for The DiplomatA full bench of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) has found Pol Pot’s surviving henchmen guilty of crimes against humanity, and sentenced them to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.udge Nil Nonn said a bench of international and Cambodian judges had found Nuon Chea, 88, and Khieu Samphan, 83 guilty of murder, extermination, and an array of other criminal charges partially in regards to the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in April 1975.Similar criminal charges involving a second phase of forced population movement between September 1975 and late 1977 and the slaughter of soldiers, bureaucrats and their families from....

Pol Pot's Chief Henchmen Face Genocide

Published on Aug 3, 2014 by Luke Hunt

Charges of genocide have been pressed against surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge by prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) as the tribunal enters its eighth year with further prosecutions in sight.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat.

Khmer Rouge Tribunal Gears Up for Next Round

Published on Apr 8, 2014 by Luke Hunt

The Trial Chamber at the Khmer Rouge tribunal has outlined its strategy for Case 002/02, which will see additional charges laid against surviving leaders of Pol Pot’s regime, blamed for the deaths of up to 2.2 million people between April 1975 and early 1979.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat. .