Yearly Archives: 2013

The Maoist Naxalite Movement – Fighters for the Poor or Terrorists?

Naxals

India Little is known in the West about the bloody clashes between India and its Maoist movement. However, India has been facing an insurgency by so-called Naxalite fighters for years. On 29 May alone, 17 people were brutally killed and more than 20 others injured in an ambush in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh. Incidents like this are not uncommon …

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The Tuareg – A People Without a Country

Tuareg and Timbuktu

Expansion of the Tuareg The Tuareg are primarily nomadic or semi-nomadic. They inhabit the arid and semi-arid regions of the Sahara and sub-Saharan Africa, stretching across Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Algeria and Libya. The right to self-determination is a fundamental principle of international law, meaning that all peoples should be free to choose their own country. Unfortunately, many of …

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