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| Thai junta reforms to fail without better charter - former PM | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Simon Webb BANGKOK (Reuters) - Any achievements by Thailand's ruling junta while in power will be lost without significant changes to the country's draft constitution, Democrat Party leader and former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Friday. Abhisit said his party had "never had a problem" with Thaksin's Puea Thai Party but that it should take the opportunity to move away from the "Thaksin agenda".
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| Pakistani military fires rare criticism at political leader | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI (Reuters) - The Pakistani military on Friday lashed out at the leader of one of the country's biggest political parties, in rare censure of a civilian politician for his sharp criticism of the army. The dispute marks a low in deteriorating relations between the military and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which controls Karachi, Pakistan's biggest and richest city. "Altaf Hussain's speech on TV, containing remarks about the army and its leadership, was uncalled for and disgusting," military spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa said on his Twitter feed, referring to the leader of the MQM. "Such reference to army or its leadership as reaction to arrest of criminals, who may have links with any political party, won't be tolerated," he said, vowing to pursue the matter legally.
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| Hundreds of students seek refuge outside U.S. embassy in Burundi | | | By Edmund Blair BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Hundreds of students from a Burundi university shuttered by the government were seeking refuge outside the U.S. embassy in the capital on Friday, amid unrest and escalating tensions ahead of the June 26 presidential vote. The east African nation has been rocked by days of protests triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term, a move opponents say violates the constitution and a peace deal that ended an ethnically charged civil war in 2005. Citing security fears, the government on Wednesday closed University of Burundi, a prestigious institution where Nkurunziza taught physical education in the mid-1990s. Students said they left halls on Thursday but feared making the journey home in case they were targeted by the government. |
| UN urges action from Maldives over trial of ex-president | |  MALE/GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior U.N. human rights official said on Friday she had visited jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed for two hours in detention and urged the government to take action on his flawed trial. "We kind of started to get signals that even the government recognises that something went wrong with the process of the trial," Mona Rishmawi, chief of the rule of law, equality and non-discrimination branch of the U.N. Human Rights Office, told a regular U.N. briefing. The country is increasingly polarised between Nasheed's supporters and those who back current President Abdulla Yameen, whose half-brother lost power to Nasheed in 2008, ending 30 years of authoritarian rule. Rishmawi said Nasheed's trial had been politically motivated and the Maldives legal system was "totally incomplete", with makeshift rules and judges wielding "incredible discretionary powers".
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| Jimmy Carter: still causing a storm in his fight for women | |  By Lisa Anderson NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After more than 50 years in the public arena, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has shown he can still command people's attention - with a column on why he quit his church over women's rights going viral six years after it was published. Carter, 90, a Nobel Peace laureate and longtime human rights champion, has campaigned to end violence and discrimination against women since leaving the White House in 1981, calling it "the human and civil rights struggle of our time". Ensnared in religious beliefs and traditional customs that often trump civil law, women's rights are under constant assault across the globe, Carter told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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| Thirty graves found at suspected Thai trafficking camp - police | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police on Friday found at least 30 graves believed to belong to migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh at what authorities say is an abandoned trafficking camp in remote jungle in Thailand's south, police said. Illegal migrants, many of them Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and from Bangladesh, brave often perilous journeys by sea to escape religious and ethnic persecution and to seek jobs in Malaysia and Thailand, a regional human trafficking hub. |
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