indigenous rights
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Gandhians with Guns (savage Avatars)
The poster says Western liberals romanticise tribal ‘sacred lands’, and that the Bodo violence against alleged Bangladeshi Muslim migrants draws on the 1960s Bangal Kheda movement against Bengalis, so civil…
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Animist Army vs. Christian Crusaders
A comment, with a long news extract, on a dispute in Jharkhand between the Sarna community and the Church over a depiction of Mary as a tribal woman, and Sarna…
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Kachins against ka-ching
A report on the Kachins’ resistance to Chinese-backed Irrawaddy dams, which Burma suspended, with the poster noting fears that the projects could restart once President Thein Sein steps down.
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Honey hunters of Nepal
A one-line comment that Nepal’s honey hunters are another old profession under threat, as the next generation wants desk jobs.
