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• India: Amravati Communal Violence Victims Say Police’s ’Incompetence’ Made Matters Worse
  15 November 2021, by siawi3

  According to eyewitnesses, the police did not take the matter seriously at first and took too long to respond to the situation. Scathing victims’ testimonies from Amravati in Maharashtra reveal a trail of loss for Hindu and Muslim families alike in the fresh wave of violence to hit the state. They also reveal the alleged incompetence of the local police administration, first in identifying the looming threat of violence and second in deploying adequate police forces in a timely fashion.

• India: Why It’s Important to Audit India’s Institutional Failures
  15 November 2021, by siawi3

  Suppression of dissenting voices by various methods is the notorious practice of all governments, all through human history. The Indian republic is no exception. It took various forms: from preventive detention to registering criminal cases under the charges of sedition, banning political organisations (which are inconvenient for the government of the day) to prosecuting the members of some political organisations under charges of terrorism etc., purportedly to protect the sovereignty and integrity of India.

• ’My computer is my weapon’: Afghan woman journalist, who pretended to be a boy, stands up to Taliban
  18 November 2021, by siawi3

  When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan, Zahra Joya dressed as a boy and called herself Mohammad, allowing her to circumvent the group’s ban on girls going to school. The journalist’s unusual childhood not only let her get an education but gave her a taste of the freedoms denied to most girls in Afghanistan. An outspoken feminist, Joya set up ’Rukhshana Media’ last year — a news service reporting on Afghan women’s lives, including the economic hardship and violence many endure.

• India: Project ‘Erase Nehru’ Critical to BJP’s Hindu Rashtra Plans
  18 November 2021, by siawi3

  Even if the BJP rewrites India’s past, there are international records and histories that it cannot easily touch. Nehru cannot be erased without striking off the first 17 years of independent India from all records. However, because his erasure in India is vital to RSS-BJP’s Hindu Rashtra plans, it will keep trying. George Orwell articulated this best in “1984”: Those who control the present control the past, and those who control the past control the future.

• En Afghanistan, les talibans s’affrontent tout en cachant leurs divisions
  18 novembre 2021, par siawi3

  Les différentes factions ont commencé à se déchirer et le mollah Baradar, numéro 2 du mouvement, est marginalisé. Plus radicaux, les « réseaux Haqqani » ont la main. Ce qui n’arrange pas le Pakistan, qui redoute que les talibans afghans aident leurs « frères » voisins.

• Afghanistan, les années djihad (1/4)
  18 novembre 2021, par siawi3

  Alors que les États-Unis se retirent d’Afghanistan après une guerre de vingt ans qu’ils ont perdue, Mediapart revient sur les années 1980-2020, qui ont vu l’émergence du djihad global dans les montagnes de l’Hindou Kouch. Tout commence avec l’arrivée à Peshawar, au début des années 1980, du cheikh palestinien Abdallah Azzam.

• Afghanistan, les années djihad (2/4)
  18 novembre 2021, par siawi3

  C’est à Djaji, dans les montagnes de l’Hindou Kouch, qu’Oussama Ben Laden et Ayman al-Zawahiri créent en août 1988 Al-Qaïda.

• Afghan women soccer players reached the UK
  20 November 2021, by siawi3

  Khalida Popal, a former captain of Afghanistan’s national women’s team who has spearheaded evacuation efforts for female athletes, said she felt “so happy and so relieved” that the girls and women were out of danger.

• India: Disinformation: A New Type of State-Sponsored Violence
  21 November 2021, by siawi3

  While we must remain attuned to the traditional tools of democratic breakdown — riots, political patronage, electoral fraud — we must start to grapple with the rapid changes in scale and efficiency of the technology of violence, harassment, and suppression. To understand the role of political disinformation in the democratic health of the country, one must juxtapose its use with broader political developments in India — in particular, the ability of the government to curate and centralise control over messaging. The sheer force of media technology and its purposing for harassment and silencing critics and the Muslim community have made it an incredibly efficient form of state-sponsored “violence.”

• Pakistan: Pakhtuns and violence of border fencing
  21 November 2021, by siawi3

  The fencing of the Pak-Afghan border is causing economic and social devastation. While the use value of local labour has been turned into a crime (smuggling), the exchange value of local miseries never depreciates. “Touts take Rs50,000 to smuggle a person across the border,” said a cab driver.

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