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As darkness fell on Christmas Day, 1943, the sight and sound of Allied warplanes flying over the prisoner-of-war camps along the Thailand-Burma railroad of death was the best present the […]

Sudanese soldiers with guns have been a familiar sight on the streets of Khartoum for many years--a constant reminder that this was a country at war with itself. Much less [...]

Rana Mitter's essay on the impact of Japanese Second World War atrocities ('The new remembering', 26 July) is a welcome reminder of imperial Japan's role as one of the three [...]

Three years ago this month, the Mauritanian army seized power from the long-term dictator Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup led by Colonel Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. On [...]

On 27 October, Darfur's rebel groups are scheduled to meet in Tripoli to thrash out a peace agreement. Britain has so far been a key player in the peace process. […]

Smoke from the coconut-fired barbecues along Jimbaran Beach on Bali mixes with the sweet fumes of kretek, the Indonesian clove-laced cigarette, on a balmy tropical night. Although this is just […]

Last May, amid considerable fanfare, the Darfur Peace Agreement was signed in Nigeria. Brokered by the United States and the African Union, it was meant to end three years of [...]

The death of Sudan's vice-president John Garang in a helicopter crash as he returned from visiting his friend Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan president, caused riots in Khartoum and in southern [...]

In this article the author discusses the Japanese use of slave labor in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. The inaccurate depiction of Allied soldiers as slave laborers in the motion picture "The Bridge on the River Kwai," is examined. It is noted that the poor treatment of Asian forced labor was ignored at the conclusion of the war.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles published in previous editions of the "New Statesman" magazine on topics including Great Britain's gross domestic product (GDP) for the second fiscal quarter of 2013, King Henry VIII's failure to produce a son with his first two wives, and cyclist Chris Froome.

The article reports on the Janjaweed, the Arab guerrillas conducting a violent campaign in support of the Sudanese government in the Darfur region of that country. It is noted that a faction within the Janjaweed refuses to attended peace talks scheduled for late October 2007 and sponsored by Great Britain because British military action in 1916 all but wiped out the group.

The article discusses the war on terrorism as conducted in Indonesia in 2007 and the continued impact experienced by the island of Bali in the wake of 2002 and 2005 terrorist bombings there. The decline in the tourist industry as a result of those incidents is examined. Despite Indonesian government assertions to the contrary, the author states that Bali is still a target of the violent Islamic organization Jemaah Iskamiyah.

Looks at the death of Sudan's vice-president John Garang. Riots in Khartoum following Garang's death; Career history of Garang; Suggestion that Garang's policies were liked by American conservatives; Suggestion that though Garang spoke of democracy, he could not bring himself to prepare for a succession.