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• UK-India: How I Endured British Racists and Survived to Tell the Tale
  5 December 2021, by siawi3

  For an Indian growing up in the UK in the 1960s, racism was an everyday experience ranging from schoolyard taunts at best to threats of violence and persecution at the worst.

• Pakistani parliament member and Pashtun leader Ali Wazir gets bail but to remain behind bars
  6 December 2021, by siawi3

  Wazir, a member of Pakistan’s National Assembly, was arrested on December 16, 2020 on charges including criminal conspiracy and making derogatory remarks against various state institutions. This followed a speech he delivered at a public meeting on December 6 that year.

• India: Our Shared Cultural Heritage - History as Heritage
  7 December 2021, by siawi3

  In defense of history, against falsifications introduced by communal forces.

• Pakistan: Sialkot no surprise - Fiddling while Rome burns
  6 December 2021, by siawi3

  This time the blasphemy brigade has claimed the life of a foreign national from a friendly country. We do not have the right to be shocked. Sanity and our blighted land have parted ways. The fuse lit decades back when religion was deployed to fight foreign powers’ wars, and later manipulate public opinion to thwart the democratic process, has now raced to its explosive-laden home. But why should we be shocked? The day before Sialkot happened the prime minister was asking universities to research the ‘harmful effects of the Western culture on our family system’. Yes, that is what he considered the top priority for social scientists/ researchers; not what fuels extremism, intolerance or why is blasphemy weaponised at will.

• Afghanistan : La France évacue 258 Afghans de Kaboul
  8 décembre 2021, par siawi3

  Ces personnes faisaient l’objet de menaces en raison de leurs engagements ou de leur lien avec la France, a expliqué le ministère des affaires étrangères. Ils ont été transportés à Doha, au Qatar, en attendant d’être rapatriés en France. Les Nations unies (ONU) ont exprimé leur inquiétude face aux « allégations crédibles » selon lesquelles les talibans auraient commis des meurtres en représailles depuis leur victoire, malgré les promesses d’amnistie pour les troupes du gouvernement déchu. « Parmi les victimes figurent des membres du personnel militaire, des policiers, des agents des services de renseignement et des miliciens »

• Inde : Comment le mouvement des agriculteurs a mis le gouvernement Modi à genoux
  8 décembre 2021, par siawi3

  A chaque étape de la mobilisation, le gouvernement dirigé par le BJP a tenté d’écraser le mouvement des agriculteurs, l’épisode le plus effroyable étant la façon dont les agriculteurs ont été fauchés [le 3 octobre dans la ville de Tikunai] dans le district du Lakhimpur Kheri, dans l’Etat Uttar Pradesh, par un convoi de voitures auquel aurait participé le fils du ministre de l’Intérieur Ajay Mishra. Plus de 600 agriculteurs protestataires sont morts pendant les mobilisations. La victoire du mouvement des agriculteurs marque également la première véritable défaite du gouvernement Modi au cours des sept dernières années ; c’est un moment capital dans l’histoire politique de l’Inde.

• India: Farmers Win on Many Fronts, Media Fails on All
  8 December 2021, by siawi3

  Pursued with a veneer of ‘concern’ for the farmers in unsigned editorials while slamming them on the op-ed pages as wealthy farmers ‘seeking socialism for the rich.’ The Indian Express, the Times of India, almost the whole spectrum of newspapers – would say, essentially, that these were rural yokels who only needed to be spoken to sweetly. The edits invariably ended on the appeal: but do not withdraw these laws, they’re really good. Ditto for much of the rest of the media.

• Reimagining India: Campaign to Uphold Human and Constitutional Rights
  8 December 2021, by siawi3

  Reimagining India: A campaign to uphold human and constitutional rights aims to bring together peoples’ groups, movements and individual citizens to reclaim our democratic republic. The campaign will take up issues including attacks on human rights defenders, hunger, malnutrition, violence against women, transgender and lgbtqia communities, climate change, corporatisation of education and natural resources,attack on minorities and dalits, and attacks on the rights of farmers and workers.

• India: Let Us Learn from Our Farmers!
  8 December 2021, by siawi3

  It’s the perseverance and sheer sincerity of common people to continue the protest by managing crowds, managing the media, taking turns to go to the Delhi border and rallying support for the movement that has proved fruitful today.

• India: Deepa Mohanan Won a Rare Battle Against Academic Casteism, But it Wasn’t Because of the Law
  10 December 2021, by siawi3

  To be a Dalit in India today...

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