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Published in: openSecurityA mixed record: Peru struggles to face its pastA new report from the International Center for Transitional Justice highlights delays in implementing a national...
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Published in: openSecurityA lethal 'non-lethal' weapon
With tear gas a prominent weapon used to repress the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the...
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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: 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: 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: openSecurityMali's reconciliation attempt
With a UN peacekeeping force soon to be deployed to Mali, what are the prospects for the recently created Dialogue...
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Published in: openSecurityReligion and after: Bangladeshi identity since 1971
Secularism was one of the cornerstones of Bengali nationalism, but its spirit was enforced only by pen and paper....
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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: HomeRequiem for a court
What is more important: to dispense justice or to achieve some kind of peace? The court in The Hague wrote the...
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Published in: HomeKenya, between hope and fear
The violent aftermath of Kenya's previous election is present in everyone's minds as Kenyans elect a successor to...
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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: openSecurityHow the Commons can break the silence over Halabja
The British Parliament is set to debate the political recognition of Saddam Hussein's campaign against the Kurds as...
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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: 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...
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Published in: openSecurityThe year of not living dangerously
ETA's 2011 ceasefire was a historic marker for the 40-plus year struggle. As the group struggles for political...
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Published in: openSecurityA tribunal exposed: leaked correspondence suggests a "disturbing pattern" that risks a miscarriage of justice
The domestic tribunal created to end the culture of impunity following the 1971 independence war continues to lose...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Cairo Gang, the Force Research Unit and ... Rupert MurdochThe story of the FRU must be one of the most sordid in British Intelligence. It reveals a deep gulf in Northern...
