Sheikh Hasina’s government has lived in self-delusion over the serial attacks on secular bloggers, writers and publishers that slowly snowballed into assassinations of Hindu and Buddhist priests and even foreigners like the Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella and Japanese national Kunio Hoshi. Yes, there has been a build-up to that.
Author: Canasian Times
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Digesting the full implications of the United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ referendum will take Britain, Europe, and the world a long time. The most profound consequences will, of course, depend on the European Union’s response to the UK’s withdrawal. Most people initially assumed that the EU would not “cut off its nose
In Britain, the End of the Establishment -Pankaj Mishra
Brexit represents, on this scale of crime, a collective suicide bombing. This is how the first globalized elites came to the end of themselves as they were, condemning their own country to disintegration and collapse. Recently the global revolt against metropolitan elites achieved a stunning result: Brexit. George Orwell once described
Bring the Dallas murderers to justice. And the killers of black people too- Garry Younge
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China’s State-Run Channels Name Lashkar For Mumbai Attacks, Show Ajmal Kasab
In a rare rebuke to its "all weather" ally Pakistan, China's state-run channels have aired a documentary naming Lashkar-e-Taiba for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and even showed footage containing confessions of Ajmal Kasab, the lone Pakistani terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 carnage. The footage was first aired by the