Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime
edited by Maggie Lemere and Zoe West
Voice of Witness/McSweeney's Books, 2011
Although personal
The BBC has decided to pull the rug from under its South Asia web portal, even as the 17th SAARC Summit got underway in Addu Atoll in the Maldives. The
INDIA
53 years of special powers
In late October, Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA) would be removed
BANGLADESH
Death squad
In mid-August, a report by the rights watchdog Amnesty International strongly criticised Bangladesh's elite police force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), accusing it of human-rights