Ethnic War

DMK urges PM to talk tough with Lankan president

With the Sri Lankan Tamils issue hogging the limelight again in Tamil Nadu, political parties are demanding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh take up the matter with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is currently on a visit to...

David Cronin: A macho view of the role of peacekeeping forces may be behind a decision not to EU...

that it had a responsibility to offer protection from genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes when governments "manifestly fail" to guard their citizens against such iniquities. Now Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has...

Indian Foreign Policy Options in Sri Lanka

And the risk of Sri Lanka falling sway to outside powers By T S GOPI RETHINARAJ THE OVERARCHING goal of India’s policy toward Sri Lanka since the 1950s was to prevent any hostile power getting a foothold in the neighbourhood....

ABKHAZIA: Why This Is the Breakaway Republic

SOKHUMI, Abkhazia, Nov 10 (IPS) - The Russian city of Adler, at the southern edge of the country on the Black sea coast, is the only gateway that has kept Abkhazia connected to the rest of the world during 16 years of isolation...

Congo: Western intervention behind bloodbath

Despite Western media and politicians having largely ignored a decade of genocidal warfare that has cost 6 million lives, the recent upsurge in fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has drawn not...

Sri Lanka: 'Give way to Tamil Eelam and avoid Sinhala blackmailing for ever'

Don't abandon the Tiger. A Sinhala-dominated Sri Lanka is not in India’s interests, writes T S Gopi Rethinaraj, a Singapore National University scholar, in the November 2008 issue of Pragati, the Indian National Interest...

How terrorism is wrong : morality and political violence / Virginia Held.

Terrorism and war -- Military intervention and terrorism -- Legitimate authority in non-state groups using violence -- Terrorism, rights, and political goals -- Group responsibility for ethnic conflict -- The media and...

Congo-Kinshasa: Escalating Conflict Threatens Ethnic Violence

Posted to the web 7 November 2008 Michael Appel Pretoria A renewal of conflict in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the potential to spiral out of control into full blown ethnic violence, an...

What Lingers On

The thorny legacy of the Red Army in Germany By Thilo Gehrke Nov 5, 2008 I can remember the time when the Russian army was about to leave Germany as if it were yesterday. Although the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) had...

Bishop blasts Bosnian Government over refugee crisis

by John Newton with Eva-Maria Kolmann, Aid to the Church in Need Posted: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:28 (GMT) An outspoken bishop has once again hit out at the international community amid no sign of a let up in the struggle...