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[-] Annoyed_Crabby 38 points 2 years ago

Other than the gross attitude toward people from weaker country and their treament of maid as if they're dog, what other human right issue they have?

[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

They love executing people and long prison sentences like it’s medieval era.

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 54 points 2 years ago
[-] Annoyed_Crabby 7 points 2 years ago

Well i blame the US for influence this part of the world with their war on drug campaign, and the fear of drug is the direct result of opium war. It's not even that long ago that US started to legalise recreational use of marijuana, it's kinda condescending to it in such simple way.

At least there's been multiple talk by the government of Malaysia (where i'm from) to decriminalise drug, not sure about Singapore.

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

US foreign and domestic policy certainly deserves a share of the blame. And we don't even have universal legal access here, it's a shit show.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah. The issue with Singapore is they have extremely strong ruling party and nepotism run strong, so the old perspective will take some time to ease out. If there's more and more evidence piling up on medical use i'm sure they will move to decriminalise.

The only country to have legal recreational marijuana in South East Asia is Thailand, though they're about to pull back the decision.

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

dang, that's a shame for Thailand - new junta, new rules I guess.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 1 points 2 years ago

Well they aren't junta, they legitimately won an election. I think you're confused Thailand with Myanmar lol

[-] vivadanang@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

everyone's a junta. we've got the dem junta and conservative junta's over here vying for power. don't take it personally.

[-] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I thought it was mostly with the British and forcing Opium on the Chinese.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, but the story and fear never left the community, it passed on for generations and spread across the south east asia.

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

well, that *technically *doesn't violate any human rights, i guess

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 14 points 2 years ago

If you don't consider living a human right

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Not sure it's that simple, since liberty is also a human right, so punishing crimes with prison would also violate human rights if you follow that line of thinking

[-] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Mostly it does since most "crimes" and nonsense

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

A few? Sure. Most? Definitely not.

[-] Cringe2793@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

"other than abusing people from other countries, what other issue do they have"

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 0 points 2 years ago

Hey that's antisemite.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I love that I can feel your vernacular in your writing. please never change. /gen

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