by Michael Sullivan and Wai MoeJun, 09 2021
Myanmar poet Khet Thi died in police custody early last month. Authorities said he died because of heart disease, his widow Chaw Su says. But they just beat his head in. Image: File photo
CHIANG RAI, Thailand Khet Thi made cakes, ice cream and poetry. The latter may have cost him his life.
He died in police custody in Myanmar early last month. The authorities say the cause was heart failure. His widow says he was beaten to death.
A civil engineer by training, the 43-year-old quit his civil service job in the central Myanmar town of Shwebo in 2012 and opened a cake and ice cream shop to support his poetry.
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He Used His Poetry To Speak Out Against Myanmar s Coup. It May Have Cost Him His Life
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Myanmar poet Khet Thi died in police custody early last month. Authorities said he died because of heart disease, his widow Chaw Su says. But they just beat his head in.
File photo
CHIANG RAI, Thailand Khet Thi made cakes, ice cream and poetry. The latter may have cost him his life.
He died in police custody in Myanmar early last month. The authorities say the cause was heart failure. His widow says he was beaten to death.
A civil engineer by training, the 43-year-old quit his civil service job in the central Myanmar town of Shwebo in 2012 and opened a cake and ice cream shop to support his poetry.
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German Redress for Namibia Genocide Spurs Colonial-Era Reckoning
Kaula Nhongo and Mike Cohen, Bloomberg News Heiko Maas, Germany s foreign affairs minister, arrives on day two of the G-7 foreign and development ministers meeting at Lancaster House in London, U.K., on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is hosting the meeting through May 5. , Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) Germanyâs admission that a colonial-era massacre in Namibia constituted genocide shines a light on Europeâs shameful imperial past and growing calls for a reckoning, potentially giving fresh impetus to claims for redress from other formerly occupied nations.
Berlin has offered Namibia 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to be used to fund land reform, rural infrastructure, water supply and training in communities whose ancestors bore the brunt of the killing spree. The aid offer did not infer any legal claim to reparations, but wa