So was your mate a captain during the Bangladeshi war of independance?....was he part of this genocide...?
So was your late friend, Cmdr Adi Shroff part of the above???
Yes or no?
The story of the Farhud is largely about the impact of both Allied and Central powers (aka Axis i.e. Nazi-led) policies in the middle east and their struggle to gain control of it's oil reserves.
I just don't know where to begin with it. Here seems as good a place as any:
*They were not.
I was passing on opinions from Nepali people I had met, letting India invade and joining India are too different things. How many times to I have to repeat that beofre it sinks it that it was something many Nepalis wanted or are you just going to keep telling them they dont have a right to...
I just found it more than slightly interesting that in a long rant about Israeli's apparent responsibilities in the West Bank and Gaza, you completely failed to make any mention of the indigenous population. A small thing, I realise. Do excuse me for nitpicking.
I am assuming that the posts of...
Bangladesh? democracy? Cant quite see that
Well said M. Oi "Mears was getting all enthusiastic about Bangladesh. Trouble has been brewing there for some time. If you want to look for a reason it's those nice boys across the border drinking Johnny Walker Black in the ISI offices."
Its a country...
As Leica has posted up some of the films being screened at the Venice Film Festival, here are some of the films premiering at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival in early September.
All the Kings Men (directed by Steven Zallian)
Remake of the 1949 Best Picture Oscar winner based...
Flipping heck.
Here's my take on this, as someone married to a Nepali - I've spent a total of about three years in the country, starting in 93.
Yes, the monarchy and a combination of the upper castes (Brahmin, Chhetri and indigenous Newar), have had it their own way for far too long, and a...
RIDERS TO THE BLOOD-RED WRATH: Gwendolyn Brooks
My proper prudence toward his proper probe
Astonished their ancestral seemliness.
It was a not-nice risk, a wrought risk, was
An indelicate risk, they thought. And an excess.
Howas I handled my discordances
And prides and apoplectic ice...
No. Islamophobia is called discrimination, and an irrational hostility towards Muslims and Arabs.
You only have to look at what is happening in your own country Hermine, to find that discrimination against Muslims and Arabs resurfaces every time there is a terrorist attack.
Sure, it's not the...
Right, so... population came up in another thread and it was suggested we discuss it here - doesn't seem to have happened, but I'll make a start:
So, "over-population" seems to recieve a fair bit of mainstream media attention, and has been the subject of numerous books. The reason for this...
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