Without truth, reconciliation not possible – paper
Francis Harrison, former BBC foreign correspondent whose book of accounts of survivors from Sri Lanka’s civil war is to be published this summer, says in an article in Dawn, that…
A quiet case of ethnic cleansing: Saving the Bangladeshi Hindus
RICHARD L BENKIN Bangladesh’s Hindu population is dying. That is not opinion; it is a fact. At the time of India’s partition (1947), they were just under one in three…
Sri Lanka: Emerging Trend – Perspective From Tamil Nadu
Prof. V SURYANARAYAN and ASHIK BONOFER Sri Lanka watchers in Tamil Nadu were hoping that the Governor’s address to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on June 3, 2011 will be…
A White Paper on NRI kids in Norway
Child welfare models – case for upholding international order and cultural sensitisation White paper on an Indian expat family’s incident with Child Protection Agency in Norway The Barnevarnet (Child Protection…
Hindus abandoned in Malaysia, Nepal, India and elsewhere
They were fiercely angry and threw the slaughtered cow’s head at the temple gate to underline the seriousness of their threat — no temple in this locality. The leader of…
The Persistence of Caste and Anti-Caste Resistance in India and the Diaspora
Introduction There is currently a popularization of South Asian culture in the West. The "dot head" or bindi is no longer a mark of gender subordination and ethnic backwardness, but…
Ensure Equal Rights for Minority Women in Pakistan
Why This Is Important Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises all people, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, the right to marry and…
Bhutanese Refugees
Issue Background Information Bhutanese refugees represent the highest per capita refugee population in the world and yet their story of suffering and of waiting remains largely unheard in the international…
Ethnic cleansing and terrorism
Approximately two-thirds of the government-declared population of 600,000 persons is composed of Buddhists with cultural traditions akin to those of Tibet. The Buddhist majority consists of two principal ethnic and…
Bhutan’s way of Ethnic Cleansing
Geschreven door Nanda Gautam woensdag, 23 juli 2008 01:00 Violation of the rights of one person spilled out to all the minorities Forced out of the Bhutan’s cabinet, exiled, extradited…