South Asia

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• Bangladesh: Motorcade of Dr Kamal Hussain attacked
  19 December 2018, by siawi3

  Oikyafront blames ruling party men for attack near Martyred Intellectuals’ Memorial; 25 hurt; 7 cars vandalised

• Bangladesh: Dr Kamal slams govt over attack on his convoy
  19 December 2018, by siawi3

  Jatiya Oikya Front chief Dr Kamal Hossain has asked the government to stop giving illegal orders to the law enforcement agencies and ruling party activists. “You (Awami League) are in power only for next 20 days. No one knows what will happen next, so be patient and stop giving illegal orders”. He urged the police not to follow illegal orders from the government, and added: “I am not blaming you [police]. But your duty is to serve the people and also not to follow illegal orders.” Bangladesh’s centre-right opposition party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has just clinched a deal with Kamal Hossain, an 82-year-old secular icon, raising its hope to end the ruling Awami League’s decade-long rule. Kamal Hossain, famously known as Dr. Kamal, has an impeccable reputation as an internationally acclaimed jurist and human rights defender. He served as a UN Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan from 1999 to 2003 in addition to serving as a member of numerous international arbitration tribunals. Known left-leaning parties, such as the Communist Party (CPB) and Socialist Party (BaSAD), while opposing Hasina’s rule, have not consented to be a part of the BNP-led alliance.

• India: Why the Transgender Community is Angry Over a Bill Meant to Protect Their Rights
  21 December 2018, by siawi3

  Why should a community so vociferously oppose a Bill that is drafted in the name of the protection of its rights? In spirit and letter, the 2014 Supreme Court judgment affirming the rights of transgender people was a huge victory for transgender people, who face intense stigma, discrimination and violence across the country. The passing of the current Bill completely shatters the hard-won victory of the Supreme Court judgement, both in spirit and letter.

• Bangladesh: Dhaka University - female students evicted at midnight
  29 November 2018, by siawi3

  “If a student has done wrong, university authorities must follow due process to take action. I don’t think it’s written anywhere that a female student can be handed over to her guardian after 12 at night. The [university] authorities have broken the rules, and set an extremely bad example in the process” Sultana Kamal

• Decline of secularism in South Asia
  30 November 2018, by siawi3

  South Asia’s multi-religious countries, namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, started off with a noble wish to be ‘secular’ and keep religion out of the business of the State.
  But it did not take long for all the three South Asian States to regress from secularism and begin to be overly influenced by the majority religious community.

• Afghanistan : une voiture piégée explose à Kaboul, faisant au moins 95 blessés
  7 août 2019, par siawi3

  Les talibans revendiquent l’attentat. Le chef de la Mission d’aide des Nations unies en Afghanistan a appelé « toutes les parties à ne pas intensifier les opérations militaires en pensant que cela leur offrira une position plus forte dans les pourparlers de paix. »

• Pakistan : la Cour suprême acquitte la chrétienne Asia Bibi, condamnée à mort pour blasphème
  31 octobre 2018, par siawi3

  Lors de l’examen de son recours début octobre, les juges de la Cour suprême ont remis en question le bien-fondé de l’accusation. « Je ne vois aucune remarque désobligeante envers le Coran dans le rapport d’enquête », avait observé le juge Mian Saqib Nisar, tandis qu’un second juge relevait plusieurs points de non-respect des procédures.

• India: First ‘Hindu Court’ set up in India by Hindu Mahasabha
  24 August 2019, by siawi3

  On 15^th August, the members of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha set up the first Hindu Court in Meerut, UP. This court has been opened to deal with the issues of Hindus such as property disputes, Hindu Marriages, harassment of Hindu women and so on.

• Sri Lanka: Aberrant Behaviour Of The Sinhalese People & En Bloc Resignation
  19 June 2019, by siawi3

  What the most respected venerables failed to do is to unequivocally condemn the violence perpetrated by the Sinhala Buddhist extremists. The desecration of nearly 30 Muslim mosques. The multiple attacks and destruction of Muslim business premises, torching of houses and properties. Also, they have failed to take note of the ongoing, consistent and deliberate hate campaign in the social media. They have also not addressed the issue of the deceptive, dishonest and poisonous media which is responsible for creating fear, panic and hatred in the minds of the innocent Sinhala Buddhist people.

• Pakistan: First Attack on Ismaili Shiite Muslim Minority
  14 May 2015, by siawi3

  “The vehicle was carrying men, women and children from the Ismaili Muslim community.”

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