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Opinion | China’s Orwellian War on Religion – By Nicholas Kristof – The New York Times

May 23, 2019 / Bullies and Scoundrels, Bullies and Scoundrels, China, Zhe Vietnam's Neighbors

By Nicholas Kristof,   Opinion Columnist May 22, 2019 151 Police patrolling near the Id Kah Mosque in the old town of Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang region.CreditJohannes Eisele/Agence France-Presse — Getty Image 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “Let’s be blunt: China is accumulating a record of Orwellian savagery toward religious people. At times under Communist Party rule, repression of faith has …

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Opinion | India’s Most Oppressed Get Their Revenge – By Meena Kandasamy – The New York Times

May 15, 2019 / Bullies and Scoundrels, Civil Rights, India and Sri Lanka

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s rule came with an attack on Dalits and the minorities. Now Dalit leaders are fighting back to defeat the Hindu nationalists. By Meena Kandasamy Ms. Kandasamy is a poet and a novelist. May 15, 2019  Dalits, India’s most marginalized people, at a protest in New Delhi last August.CreditSajjad Hussain/Agence France-Presse — Getty …

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Editorial | Will Donald Trump Stand Up to China? – The New York Times

September 20, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, China

“President Xi Jinping has imposed China’s most sweeping internment program since Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, when more than one million people were killed and millions of others were imprisoned, tortured and humiliated. Citing credible reports, a United Nations panel last month said up to one million Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority, are being held in detention camps without benefit of …

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Race Against the Rains- video of Rohingya in Bangladesh – The New York Times

May 31, 2018 / Bangladesh, Rohingya of Myanmar

Video trip through the largest refugee camp in the world. The Rohingya in Bangladesh prepare for the coming monsoon rains. About this article   NYTIMES.COM Race Against the Rains The race to rebuild the world’s largest refugee camp, where monsoon rains threaten flooding, landslides and disease. Source: Race Against the Rains – The New York …

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Opinion | What Really Happens in China’s ‘Re-education’ Camps – By Rian Thum – NYT

May 15, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, China

“What does it take to intern half a million members of one ethnic group in just a year? Enormous resources and elaborate organization, but the Chinese authorities aren’t stingy. Vast swathes of the Uighur population in China’s western region of Xinjiang — as well as Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other ethnic minorities — are being detained …

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Opinion | The Promise of Malaysia’s Old-New Leader – The New York Times

May 14, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, Malasia

“An autocratic politician emerges from retirement at age 92 to defeat his handpicked but appallingly corrupt successor, and to clear the way for a former deputy he had imprisoned on trumped-up charges. It’s an unlikely plot for a political thriller, but that’s what is happening in Malaysia. And if things play out according to Mahathir Mohamad’s plan, …

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Opinion | #MeToo Goes Global – by Nicholas Kristof – NYT

May 3, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, David Lindsay, India and Sri Lanka, Nicholas Kristof

She was an 8-year-old girl with thick brown hair, large brown eyes, a purple dress and a fondness for running through the fields in northern India where she tended horses. Then a man called her into the nearby forest, grabbed her by the neck and forced her to take sleeping pills, according to police accounts. The …

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The Biggest Refugee Camp Braces for Rain: ‘This Is Going to Be a Catastrophe’ – The New York Times

March 14, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, David Lindsay, Environment, Myanmar, Rohingya of Myanmar

The world’s largest refugee camp, a temporary home to more than half a million people that sprawls precariously across barren hills in southeastern Bangladesh, faces a looming disaster as early as April when the first storms of the monsoon season hit, aid workers warn. “It’s going to be landslides, flash floods, inundation,” said Tommy Thompson, …

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What It’s Like to Live in a Surveillance State – by James Millward – NYT

February 5, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, China, Climate Change Remediation

Image by Brian Stauffer, NYT “I have researched Xinjiang for three decades. Ethnic tensions have been common during all those years, and soon after 9/11, Chinese authorities started invoking the specter of “the three evil forces of separatism, extremism and terrorism” as a pretense to crack down on Uighurs. But state repression in Xinjiang has never …

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