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Published in: openSecurityProfessor Ghulam Azam: a flawed conviction and miscarriage of justiceOn the basis of a flawed trial bereft of substantial evidence, my father has now been sentenced to 90 years in...
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Published in: openSecurityIs Bangladesh spiralling out of control?
The massacre of Hefazat protesters in Dhaka by Bangladeshi security forces, followed by the government’s initial...
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Published in: HomeWoolwich and Afghanistan: the connection
An understanding of the link between the shocking murder of a young soldier on a London street and "remote-control"...
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka remembers to forget
Celebrations to mark the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war perform the function of collective forgetting. If the country...
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka's BBS: an old spectre in new garb?
Though interreligious violence in Sri Lanka is not new, the emergence of the well-organized, well-connected Buddhist...
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Published in: openSecurityFour years on, genocide continues off the battlefield
On the anniversary of the 26-year civil war, the Sri Lankan state celebrates its 2009 victory while Tamils mark the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe end of Cold Start?
India's development of an offensive military doctrine after the 2001 attack on the Parliament was meant to create a...
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Published in: openSecurityFear of escalation at the LOC
More than 65 years after partition, a mediated resolution to the Kashmir conflict remains illusory. Fear of...
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Published in: openSecurityMilitarisation as panacea: development and reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka
Is it possible to secure the dignity, rights and well-being of a conflict-affected population by incorporating them...
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Published in: openSecurityMission Afghanistan
India must take on a global leadership role, providing both economic and military aid together with regional/global...
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Published in: openSecurity'A slap on the wrist': Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council
An inteview with Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, President of the Tamil National People's Front, who warns that the Tamil...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Rohingya crisis of June 2012: a survivor's testimony
The Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Rakhine State in Burma, are among the most persecuted minorities in the world....
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Published in: openSecurityBangladesh justice: damned if you do, damned if you don't
"One must ask what is the point in a trial where the only acceptable result is execution": have politics...
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Published in: openSecurityFree speech and Bangladesh's growing climate of fear
The latest conviction and death sentence handed down by the ICT has already sparked further protests. As the...
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Published in: openSecurityShahbagh: what revolution, whose revolution?
The protests in Shahbagh errupted apparently spontaneously in response to the first verdict handed down by...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Bangla Language Movement and Ghulam Azam
As the world celebrates International Mother Language Day in memory of the Bangla Language Movement, Bangladeshis at...
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Published in: HomeQuetta’s enduring savagery: ethnic cleansing or sectarian violence?Ethnic cleansing is a crime under international law. In the case of Pakistan, we see a cold-hearted and detached...
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Published in: openSecurityTowards partisan politics: #Shahbag and the politics of revenge
Protests at Shahbag that call for the death penalty for Abdul Quader Mollah have been hailed as a move beyond...
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Published in: 50.50The youth of Shahbagh: A Bengali spring?Dhaka has been witnessing a youth uprising against Islamism in Bangladesh. The UK is also witnessing daily events in...
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Published in: openSecurityLaws of passion: the Shahbag protests
The second verdict handed down by Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal is life imprisonment. Now a death sentence is...
