RAIPUR: Senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary Indresh Kumar on Sunday questioned why there has been no Maoist attack on institutions of Christian communities, saying this needs an explanation. “Why have churches never been targeted by the Maoists?” he asked while talking to a group of reporters at the new circuit house in the state [...]
November 28, 2015
HHR
Archives, India
“Upcoming elections in Nepal. The rule of law for a democratic and peaceful process”: on 13 November 2013, the Brussels-based European Institute for Asian Studies held a conference to prepare us for the second elections for a Constituent Assembly in Nepal. In 2008, the Nepalese people had already elected a first Constituent Assembly, but it [...]
November 14, 2013
Dr Koenraad Elst
Archives, Nepal
‘We are told (inaccurately) that the Maoists principally dominate tribal areas because these populations are among the poorest of the poor. What is ignored here is the sheer and demonstrative brutality of the Maoists — cold-blooded killings; the cutting off of limbs for the smallest of infractions; harsh and humiliating punishments for “co-operating” with the [...]
March 2, 2013
Aron Aronite
World Focus