True story of how the UK and the US conspired to illegally evict thousands of Chagossian islanders from Diego Garcia in the 1960s to make way for a US military base. Graphic reportage by Dan Archer.

As there was no UN mandated arms embargo, there were plenty of countries willing to keep supplying Burma’s newly enriched generals. China, Russia, Israel, Ukraine and others ensured Burma’s enlarged military was equipped with modern weaponry, paid for largely by Western investment.

Accusing the military of being in a state of denial, Philip Alston pointed to its counterinsurgency program, where activists were accused of supporting the communist party, and then systematically hunted down. According to Alston, activists were killed following a campaign of individual vilification by the military and that the strategy was designed to instil fear of the military in the community.

Cover story by Deepti Priya Mehrotra, author of Burning Bright: Irom Sharmila and the struggle for peace in Manipur. Irom Sharmila has been on a fast unto death for ten years, demanding a repeal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur, India. Ten innocent people were mowed down by security forces [...]

Brian Palmer gives a preview of his first documentary film, on his experience as an embedded journalist during the war in Iraq.

This July, US military planes lifted off from the Eloy Alfaro Airbase, for the last time. After ten years of maintaining a base in Manta, the US was asked to end its military presence on Ecuadorian soil… As the US military was kicked out of Ecuador, the joy was shared by around 450 No-Bases campaign chapters worldwide.

While the global military-industrial-complex propagates that the path to security and peace lies with military solutions, Ofog strives for a world based on democracy, human rights and justice, where real security of the people will be achieved through ending poverty and discrimination.