South Asia

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 …

Myanmar, Burma Recently, more and more positive news has emerged from Myanmar (Burma) as the country transitions from military dictatorship to civil society. Burma has its own heroine in the struggle for freedom in the form of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. However, it seems that not everyone is destined for freedom. In the far west of …

Pakistan Until the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, few people knew about either Afghanistan or Pakistan. It was through the struggle against the Soviet Union that the West became increasingly aware of this region of the world. The Mujahideen, the heroes of the Hindu Kush who drove the communists out of the country, were admired all over the world. …