Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Playing ball with the Jamaat

    by Salil Tripathi, 13 March 2013

    The Jamaat’s worldview is antithetical to the kind of nation Bangladeshis have repeatedly wanted to build

  • India: Statement by Citizens for Justice & Peace and Sabrang Trust re malicious campaign by powerful interests in Gujarat and the oppostion party at the national level

    13 March 2013

    A deliberate campaign to vilify the efforts to procure justice for the Victims of the carnage of 2002 that has been sustained and supported by vested powerful interests in Gujarat and the opposition party at the national level has reached new heights over past weeks. Malafide attempts to embroil us in more false cases before the Gujarat police

  • India: Letter to Publishers Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor and Francis by 309 scholars and Press release by ASEAK students fora

    13 March 2013

    Dear OUP, CUP and Taylor & Francis, We refer to a law-suit filed by you against Delhi University (DU) and its photocopier, Rameshwari Photocopying alleging copyright infringement in the creation and distribution of “course packs”. We are forwarding to you a letter signed by 309 academics and authors from around the world, among whom are 33 authors specifically mentioned by you in the said law suit, as being authors of books over which you allegedly own copyright (hereafter referred (…)

  • Bangladesh: The Jamaat Factor

    by jrahman, 13 March 2013

    A train set on fire by activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh
    Delwar Hossain Sayedee, an Islamic preacher and a senior leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, the country’s largest Islam-pasand party, was sentenced to death on 28 February for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War. Within hours, Jamaat cadres and activists clashed violently with police and law enforcement agencies. Scores have been killed in some of the worst political violence the country has experienced (…)

  • India: Reports on the Ejipura Eviction in Bangalore

    12 March 2013

    Since January 18, 2013. more than 5000 urban poor have been violently evicted from their homes in EWS Quarters, Ejipura, in Banaglore. land earmarked for Economically Weak Sections (EWS) is being used for the purpose pf private profit? Why the residents were not relocated before being displaced? And should we stay silent when public land is gifted away to builders?

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