Islamic State on Trial in Indonesia

Published on Dec 23, 2015 by Luke Hunt

Indonesia is intensifying its efforts to mitigate any fallout from home-grown recruits returning from the battlefields in the Middle East, where hundreds have fought with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat..

Has a Philippine Militant Group Gone Regional?

Published on Nov 29, 2015 by Luke Hunt

As the rest of the world grapples with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), their latest attacks on Paris, and what some commentators are calling the Global Jihad Insurgency, Philippines-based Islamic militant group the Abu Sayyaf may be spreading its own unwanted tentacles.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat..

Shades of JI and Grey Wolves in Bangkok Bombing

Published on Oct 10, 2015 by Luke Hunt

Claiming responsibility was never a strong point with al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the assortment of Islamic salafists who have deployed a range of terrorist tactics in pursuit of their political and religious agendas over the past two decades.Osama bin Laden took three years before claiming direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat..

Pol Pot's Surviving Lieutenants Held to Account

Published on Oct 10, 2015 by Luke Hunt

The Diplomat chats with senior figures from the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia, which has scored some success in prosecuting surviving leaders of the ultra-Maoist regime.Efforts to put senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge has heralded some success, securing three convictions against the regime’s former head of state Khieu Samphan, Brother Number Two Nuon Chea and the commandant of the S21 Death camp Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch.Listen to more..

Evidence Mounts Over Khmer Rouge Genocide of Muslims and Vietnamese

Published on Oct 10, 2015 by Luke Hunt

Ever since Cambodia’s prime minister Hun Sen asked the United Nations in the late 1990s to back his plan for a trial of surviving Khmer Rouge leaders, legal scholars, academics and journalists have argued whether genocide should have been included among the raft of charges that followed.Read more from Luke Hunt in The Diplomat..