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[Amnesty International, 19 November 2008 >http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/sri-lankan-government-must-act-now-protect-300000-displaced-20081119]
The humanitarian crisis in the Wanni region of northern Sri Lanka is worsening as the government fails to provide shelter and protect over 300,000 displaced civilians.
Tens of thousands of families are now enduring the monsoon season with limited food, shelter, water or sanitation. They fled their homes to escape the fighting (…)

The Island, 15 November 2008
NOTEBOOK OF A NOBODY
The appalling silence of the good people
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
Martin Luther King, the author of the words quoted above, was as (…)

India and Pakistan have disputed ownership of the Kashmir Valley region for many years, resulting in high levels of exposure to violence among the civilian population of Kashmir (India). A survey was done as part of routine programme evaluation to assess confrontation with violence and its consequences on mental health, health service usage, and socio-economic functioning.

Herald, 17 Nov 2008
The Sangh Parivar’s perverse notions of patriotism are exposed by its stance on terrorism by saffron forces
The arrests of Lt Col Srikant Purohit, a serving army officer, and the self-styled godman Sudhakar Dwivedi alias Dayanand Pandey alias Swami Amritanand Dev Teerth Maharaj, for their alleged involvement in the Malegaon blasts have added to the increasingly frightening picture that is emerging regarding the involvement of various Hindutvavadi outfits in terrorism. (…)