South Asia
NATO bombing kills eight Afghan children
By Bill Van Auken, February 11, 2012
At least eight Afghan civilians, all children according to some reports, were killed Thursday when a NATO warplane bombed a village in Afghanistan's northeast Kapisa province.
Sri Lanka: SEP open letter to the defence minister
By Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), February 11, 2012
The Socialist Equality Party demands that the Rajapakse government immediately ends the harassment and threats by the military against party members in Jaffna.
Sri Lanka: Military continues intimidation of SEP in Jaffna
By our correspondent, February 10, 2012
After banning an SEP public meeting in Jaffna, the military has intensified its threats against party members.
Maldives president ousted in US-backed coup
By W. A. Sunil and Deepal Jayasekera, February 10, 2012
Right-wing forces in the Maldives, aided by the military and police, have ousted President Mohamed Nasheed in a US-backed coup.
CIA drones target rescue workers, mourners
By Patrick Martin, February 7, 2012
An investigation by British and Pakistani journalists found that the CIA followed up drone missile strikes with further attacks that targeted rescue workers and funerals.
Sri Lanka: Colombo meeting to defend SEP’s democratic rights
By Socialist Equality Party, February 6, 2012
The SEP and ISSE in Sri Lanka are holding a public meeting on February 13 against the government’s attack on the party and its members in Jaffna.
India’s Supreme Court orders limited inquiry into Gujarat police murders
By Kranti Kumara, February 4, 2012
India’s Supreme Court has ordered an inquiry into a wave of summary executions, carried out by Gujarat police between 2003 and 2006. Most of the victims were Muslims entirely innocent of any wrongdoing.
NATO ministers hold crisis talks on Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, February 3, 2012
Amid growing signs of crisis in the decade-old US-led war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday that the US would make a “transition” from combat to “training” and “advising” puppet Afghan forces by the end of 2013.
Obama publicly embraces drone killings
By Bill Van Auken, February 2, 2012
President Obama is deliberately embracing and thereby seeking to justify and normalize the criminal actions of the US military-intelligence apparatus.
Indian town under police occupation after killing of union leader
By Arun Kumar, February 2, 2012
The tiny enclave of Yanam in Puducherry is under police occupation after a clash between police and locked out Regency Ceramics workers left the local union leader dead and more than a dozen other workers critically injured.
Pakistan’s prime minister kowtows to military in bid to end political crisis
By Keith Jones, February 1, 2012
Pakistan’s prime minister made a humiliating climb down last week, retracting, after weeks of refusing to do so, his accusation that the Army chief and the head of Pakistan’s principal intelligence agency had acted illegally and unconstitutionally.
Hands off the SEP! Defend SEP members in Jaffna!
By Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka), January 31, 2012
The decision to block the SEP public meeting, called to demand the release of all political prisoners, was taken by the highest level of the Rajapakse government.
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