25 August 1999
Sydney Morning Herald
An Indian judicial inquiry into the brutal murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons ignored evidence that the killer belonged to a group linked to the ruling Hindu nationalists, an influential human rights organisation has charged.
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The Globe and Mail 15 May 1999
John Stackhouse
Wangchuck has the royal touch
The King is building a welfare state,
with free education, health care
In a region dominated by political thugs, crooks and buffoons, Bhutan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck stands out, and not just for his dashing looks and four gorgeous wives, all sisters.
The 43-year-old monarch, who ascended the temporal throne at the age of 18 after his father died on safari in Kenya, is slowly emerging as a Himalayan version of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, the leader of a tiny outpost who may yet turn his country into a model state and gain disproportionate influence with its much larger neighbours.
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21 August 1998, India Abroad
By Vasantha Arora
India is home to over 320,000 refugees, but has no coordinated approach to deal with them or their problems, according to a U.S. report.
Of the total number of refugees in India, 110,000 are from Tibet, 100,000 from Sri Lanka and 40,000 each from Bangladesh and Burma. In addition to these foreigners, India has about 200,000 internally displaced persons, says the report, released by the U.S. Committee for Refugees, a Washington-based nonprofit humanitarian organization.
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June 19, 2010 | Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) vol xlv no 25
TNN Nov 22, 2001 | The Times of India
new delhi: the south asia human rights documentation centre (sahrdc) has described the prevention of terrorism ordinance (poto) as ”yet another blot on india’s democratic fabric”. in a booklet on poto, ”government decides to play judge and jury”, released on tuesday, sahrdc says there is not a single provision in the ordinance — except those which contradict the crpc, ipc, evidence act or the constitution — that is not covered by existing laws such as the nsa, armed forces special powers act, unlawful activities (prevention) act, prevention of seditious meetings act and a host of other acts.
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The Statesman
NEW DELHI, 26 Oct. 1998 – A report on the situation in Bhutan has warned of a possible conflagration if the root causes of the unrest are not addressed.
The situation there, with the presence of the Indian insurgent groups, the unrest amongst the Lhotsampas of south Bhutan and the Sharchop community of eastern Bhutan and the presence of a large number of small arms in the region has been described by the South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre as a powder keg.
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