Silent Lonesome Man

The Houthis are notorious as it was born from the ashes of Hussein Badreddin Al-Houthi, a Zaydi Shi'a and also former parliamentarian of the Yemeni Cabinet. The former parliamentarian, who himself got educated in Iran and even met personally with Ali Khamenei (the current Iranian Supreme Leader), entered the Cabinet during 1990s with hope to raise concern about government's corruption, but instead got nothing except rebuffs from the officials. Unsurprisingly, Hussein Badreddin attempted to create a political party that would go on to be known after his death, Ansarallah, or the Houthis after the former's surname. He was killed in September 2004 when he clashed with government's troops, but his party persisted and even grew into a very powerful, notorious group. Of course, the group was not always at easy shape - the President of Yemen at the time of Hussein's death, ironically the Shi'a Ali Abdullah Saleh - tried to suppress the movement. However, the Houthis we...

Afghanistan is on the brink of returning to the reign of terror that the Taliban has imposed after it successfully restored power following a week. The Taliban has restarted its attempts to reintroduce medieval, authoritarian law, in spite of its insistence that it'll be a "different" Taliban. Of course, nobody is foolish enough to buy the Taliban's propaganda, not even it hated neighbour Iran, which has been trying to work and weaken the Taliban at the same time. Yet one country that doesn't get so much "credit" for building this sectarian, terrorist group to fill the power void for so long: Pakistan. In fact, Pakistan plays a major role in making Afghanistan a mess - and also turning the country into a sectarian territory uncontrolled by the authorities, if not to say Pakistan "kill itself" with it. We have never imagined the role of Pakistan in the terror Afghans have been suffering. But it is necessary to understand its background. Pakistan...

Tatmadaw is the name of the official Armed Forces of Myanmar or Burma. Taliban is an insurgent group in Afghanistan. Both two of them appear very different from the moments they surfaced, with two groups ruling two nations far apart from each other, having two different religious ideologies, except both are Asians. Yet, their idea of how to govern their nations are characterised by fascinating similarities: terror, thirst for power, and brainwashing, year by year. To understand the Tatmadaw and the Taliban, one can't go without digging the root of the past the created these forces, renowned for being brutal and violent from every corner it can do with. Only by seeing the inner self have we really discovered why Tatmadaw and Taliban are so ruthlessly murderous, for both the innocents of Myanmar and Afghanistan. History We'll talk a bit. Tatmadaw was originally the " Burma Independence Army ", founded by the father of current detained Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, A...

I'll take an example of a far away past. In 1950, when North Korea, armed to teeth by the Soviet Union, invaded the poorly organised South, the South was nearly overrun. The United States and her allies came to intervene, successfully curbed the communist expansion, and saved the South, recovered Seoul, before a ceasefire treaty was signed in 1953, temporarily halted all hostilities. Since 1953, South Korea began its sojourn journey from a completely devastated nation to become one of the greatest economic prospects in the modern world. All were achieved under a similar American-backed system. However, with the exception of South Korea, almost every America-backed government collapsed immediately when the United States began the process of leaving. Why? And what happened? South Korea's success should have been copied. Instead, what we saw was South Vietnam, Iraq and most recently, Afghanistan - where America-backed administrations collapsed horrendously. What makes them lack so...