South Asia
India: Naxalite hand in opium trade?
Authorities in India say that the Naxalite guerillas, following a series of reversals, have taken refuge in the northeast, where they are trading opium for guns from Burma.
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South Asia
India: institutionalized rape targets ‘untouchables’
The deadly gang-rape in Delhi has sparked outrage across India—but it remains to be seen if protests will address the institutionalized use of rape to enforce the caste system.
South Asia
Riots rock Bangladesh after factory fire
Bangladeshi workers blocked streets in a Dhaka industrial zone, throwing stones at factories and smashing vehicles, to demand justice for 112 people killed in a garment factory fire.
South Asia
India executes last gunman from Mumbai attacks
The only surviving shooter in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks was executed at a prison in India after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected the gunman’s clemency appeal.
South Asia
Buddhist-Muslim tensions follow Bangladesh riots
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.
South Asia
India: strange bedfellows in Bharat Bandh
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.
South Asia
India: police fire on anti-nuclear protesters
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.
South Asia
India: more convictions in Gujarat riots
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.
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Bangladesh indigenous peoples: We exist!
Tribal peoples marched in the conflicted Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh to demand their constitutional recognition as “indigenous people” with territorial rights.
South Asia
India’s new president: GWOT is World War 4
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.
South Asia
India: demand probe of massacre in Naxalite zone
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.
South Asia
Sri Lanka releases information on thousands detained since civil war
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.