Buddhists in Burma and Sri Lanka held anti-Muslim protests after Muslim rioters in Bangladesh torched Buddhist temples in response to a Facebook post denigrating the Koran.
A Bharat Bandh—all-India general strike—called to protest neoliberal economic measures shut down much of the country, supported by Hindu nationalist and Marxist parties alike.
A months-long civil disobedience campaign against the Koodankulam nuclear plant in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state turned violent as police opened fire on protesters.
An court in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city, convicted 32 individuals for their roles in the deaths of 95 people during the 2002 anti-Muslim pogroms in the northwest Indian state.
Tribal peoples marched in the conflicted Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh to demand their constitutional recognition as “indigenous people” with territorial rights.
In his inaugural speech, India’s new president, Pranab Mukherjee, called the fight against terrorism the “fourth world war,” and portrayed his own country as a frontline state.
Rights advocates and left-wing political parties in India are demanding an inquiry into the massacre of 19 adivasi (tribal) villagers in a remote part of Chhattisgarh state by police hunting for Naxalite guerillas.
The Sri Lanka Police released the names of thousands of people being held under that country’s anti-terror laws. The release comes three years after the end of the country’s 26-year civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh indicted veteran opposition leader Ghulam Azam, 89, for alleged human rights atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan.
The demolition of a mosque near the Golden Temple of Dambulla—a Buddhist cave-temple in central Sri Lanka—bears echoes of the 1992 destruction of the Ayodhya mosque in India, which ultimately led to the Gujarat genocide.
A court in the west Indian state of Gujarat convicted 23 people of participating in the "Ode massacre" committed during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Muslim families were locked in their homes and burned alive in the massacre.
Millions of workers walked off their jobs across India, with the telecoms, transport sector and postal service most affected. The “all-India” general strike was most universally observed in the southern state of Kerala, which remains virtually paralyzed.
