On the morning of Aug. 27, UC Berkeley campus police raided the Long Haul Infoshop on Shattuck Ave. in South Berkeley, breaking down the door and confiscating all computers on the premises. Computers taken included those used by East Bay… Read morePolice raid Berkeley anarchist infoshop
A new report by the Israeli group Peace Now said Israel has nearly doubled construction in its West Bank settlements this year—violating commitments under the US-backed “road map” peace plan even as it pursued revived talks with the Palestinians. Secretary… Read moreIsraeli settlement accelerates on West Bank —despite “road map”
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported that an investigation by its human rights team found that some 90 civilians were killed, including 60 children, during operations carried out by international and Afghan military forces on Aug. 21 in… Read moreUN: air-strike in Afghanistan killed 90 civilians
Jumma man Ladu Moni Chakma was hacked to death Aug. 26 by a group of Bengali settlers at his home in the Sajek area of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. His wife, Shanti Bala Chakma, who was also attacked, was… Read moreBangladesh: tribal peoples face deadly reprisals for defending land
India’s Border Security Force has launched a new initiative to combat “illegal” infiltration of peasants from Bangladesh into Assam and other northeastern states. The Assam Assembly witnessed noisy scenes last month after the state government announced that Bangladesh and neighboring… Read moreIndia: Bangladesh “encroaching” on Assam; harbinger of climate disaster?
Food riots erupted Aug. 27 in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in the worst flooding in 50 years. One person was killed in Madhepura district when… Read moreIndia: flooding, food riots in east strain ties with Nepal
Indian authorities have deployed 3,000 police at Tata Motors’ plant in West Bengal as protesters defied a threat from the company to halt production of the Nano model ultra-compact automobile in the communist-ruled state. About 30,000 local residents have occupied… Read moreIndia: farmers occupy West Bengal industrial site
Hindus and Christians clashed in Barakhama village in Kandhamal district of India’s Orissa state Aug. 25 and the ensuing gunbattle resulted in the death of four local residents, including one woman. A curfew has been imposed in much of the… Read moreIndia: Maoist, fundamentalist violence deadly mix in Orissa
In the latest in a series of such incidents in recent weeks, gunfire erupted across the Line of Control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan Aug. 26, injuring four Indian border guards. Bala Subramanyam, spokesman for the Indian Border Security… Read moreKashmir: more gunfire across the LoC
At least 20 people were injured in a bomb blast at a pro-autonomy rally in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province Aug. 26. Officials said a bomb rigged to a parked motorcycle detonated near the rally’s stage in the town of Jaaferabad, leaving… Read moreWho is behind Baluchistan terror?
Former Boston Indymedia journalist and media activist Bryan Conley, founder of grassroots media videoblog Alive in Baghdad, is one of six US citizens detained in China for covering actions of Students for a Free Tibet during the Olympics. The other… Read moreFormer Boston Indymedia reporter among ten foreigners detained in China
Hundreds of Tibetan exiles Aug. 24 staged a peaceful march in Kathmandu to protest China’s rule in Tibet, coinciding with the concluding ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. There were heavy deployment of riot police in the area, but no arrests… Read moreTibetan exiles march in Nepal as Olympics close
