Comment 233 – The Pakistan Taliban: teetering ties between Islamabad and Kabul
Pakistan is experiencing growing instability in its western border regions since the military takeover of Kabul by the Afghan Taliban. We are indeed witnessing the resurgence of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban. After being pushed out from the country by several major military campaigns...
Calling the Gravediggers? Hindu-Nationalism – India’s Bêtes Noires under Stress
By: Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf
One of the most noteworthy developments in contemporary Indian politics is the occurrence of a phenomenon often described as Hindu-Nationalism, Hindu fundamentalism or even Hindu-Chauvinism. Since recently, even the buzzword of Hindu-terrorism appeared. Irrespective of the debate circling around the proper terminology , the issue...
Comment 223 – On the UN Genocide Remembrance Day
Seventy-three years ago, the United Nations (2020) approved its first human-rights treaty – also known as the Genocide convention, because it mainly concerns the crime of genocide. The 9th of December, the day of its original approval, has been celebrated since 2015 as ‘the International Day of Commemoration and...
COMMENT 133 – Venues for peace in the Eastern shores of the Gulf of...
1. The context
In September last year, I travelled extensively through Bangladesh’s conflict area within the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the immense refugee camps on the right bank of the Naf River. In the first half of February, I stayed for some days in Yangon, Myanmar, in the wake of...