More than 50 years after the arbitrary killing, torture and imprisonment of more than a million communists and their sympathisers in Indonesia, the government has for the first time hosted a two-day national symposium on the 1965-66 violence.
South Asia Citizens Web
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How should Indonesia resolve atrocities of the 1965-66 anti-communist purge?
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For Once Ask Not What Kashmir Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Kashmir
by , 26 April 2016The aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir point the way toward a workable democratic pluralism in the state – where the reigning principle is discussion leading to free elections, not autocratic decision-making either by elected legislators or separatists.
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India: Controlling how women dress is, of course, one more way in which patriarchy tries to control women
26 April 2016this whole idea that women must conform to certain rules of dress and conduct — rules laid down by men — is so out of date that it is almost laughable. Yet it is relentlessly propagated — by families, by academic institutions, and often, by our astonishingly regressive politicians.
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Bangladesh: The defenestration of secularism | Ikhtisad Ahmed
25 April 2016In her Pohela Boishakh address after Nazimuddin’s murder, the same prime minister who had so passionately showed solidarity with Rajib, secularism, and the oppressed secularists, chose to be on the wrong side of history.
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Bangladesh: LGBT editor killed, others attacked and threatened - Media Reports and Statements by PEN, Amnesty & Human Rights Watch [25-26 April 2016]
25 April 2016Police in Bangladesh say two people including a leading gay rights activist and editor at Bangladesh’s only LGBT magazine have been hacked to death.
