Peaceful protest seems to be a common theme in India; back in the 1930’s, Ghandi led a group of peaceful protesters for miles across India and today we see farmers digging holes and sitting in them for hours on end in order to get their demands met. India’s Constitution gives its citizens similar fundamental rights to those we possess in… Read more »
From: Al Jazeera Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – Eighteen-year-old Rohingya refugee Amir Mia is carrying his deceased grandfather’s body through the Balukhali expansion camp in the Bangladeshi port city of Cox’s Bazar. He is taking his grandfather to be buried in a graveyard that was created after the recent influx of Rohingya refugees, fleeing violence by the Myanmar army that the UN has described as ethnic cleansing, began on August… Read more »
From: BBC A United Nations expert has urged Iran’s government to stop harassing BBC Persian staff and their families. David Kaye, the special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, confirmed he had received a complaint from the BBC about their treatment. It came after Iran initiated a criminal investigation into 150 BBC staff, former staff and contributors for “conspiracy… Read more »
Source: France24 The death toll in an ongoing suicide and gun attack on a police training centre in a southeast Afghan city has risen to 32 with more than 200 wounded, a hospital official said Tuesday. “The hospital is overwhelmed and we call on people to donate blood,” said Shir Mohammad Karimi, deputy health director in Gardez, the capital of… Read more »
Source: France 24 For more than three weeks now, scores of Indian farmers have spent their days neck-deep in the ground in Nindar village, outside Jaipur in Rajasthan state. They have half-buried themselves to protest the state government’s plans to take over 540 acres of land belonging mostly to farmers. The land is slated for a massive housing project as… Read more »
This is a prime example of what happens when outside foreign powers decide to intervene with nations that they don’t understand. When Britain drew the Durand line they didn’t have any regard for how it would affect the people of that region. Especially in a region so rich with tribal ties, the line has become problematic in that people’s loyalty… Read more »
From: Reuters CHAMAN/QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Thousands of Pashtun tribal people who for decades ignored the invisible line that bisects their dusty villages and demarcates the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier are bracing for a Berlin Wall-style divide of their neighborhoods. Pakistan, worried by Islamist attacks, is building a fence to prevent militants criss-crossing the porous 2,500 km (1,500 mile) frontier along the… Read more »
From: Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – A tough line from President Donald Trump has been met by a show of unity from both sides of Iran’s political divide, uniting hardliners who cast the United States as an implacable enemy with pragmatists who seek rapprochement with the West. Iran, which has kept up a steady drumbeat of angry statements for days, lashed… Read more »
From: New York Times GENEVA — United Nations officials struggling to mobilize aid for more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar in recent weeks have reported another surge of arrivals in Bangladesh, and warned on Tuesday that the crisis could worsen. More than 11,000 people crossed the border into Bangladesh on Monday, the United Nations… Read more »
Afghanistan has been combating the Taliban for quite some time now, but there is a difference between soldiers fighting and civilians being punished for a situation they never asked to be in. By taking away their medical care, this becomes much more than a political war. The Taliban is purposefully trying to attack every aspect of the lives of Afghans… Read more »