Around 1,500 killed in Bangladesh protests that ousted PM Hasina
Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters About 1,500 people died in protests that brought down Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this year, and as many as 3,500 may have been forcibly abducted during her 15-year rule, interim leader Muhammad Yunus said on Sunday. The estimate by the economist and Nobel peace laureate, who is due to organise elections, […]
Promised land?: Colombia makes slow progress on land rights since FARC peace deal
NELSON BOCANEGRA, of Reuters, reports on the slow process of land redistribution amid the ongoing conflict in the country…
Essay: How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, 50 years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
In an in-depth article, BRAD EVANS, co-director of the co-directed the State of Disappearance project, says, in an article first published on The Conversation, that Pinochet’s rise to power marked the start of the modern era of disappearance as a political and organised crime technique…