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...Indian decision," Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, executive director of Equal Ground, a gay rights group in Sri Lanka. "Things don't work like that, we have to keep working and advocating constantly." The Indian High Court has given them one more rallying cry. - With reporting by Amantha Perera / Colombo and Delwar Hussain / Dhaka...
...editors are practicing self-censorship after receiving communiqués from military intelligence. "Everywhere you look there are watchmen outside your door," says Adilur Rahman Khan, member of Odhikar, an outspoken human-rights group. "Just open your mouth and you're liable to be jailed," says Khondkar Delwar Hussain, secretary general of the BNP. In recent raids across the country over the past few weeks, the government has arrested around 25,000 people, including many local party activists, on vague grounds of curbing criminal activity. An Amnesty International report released last month condemned the "severely restricted" state of human rights...
...centrally located Bangabandhu Avenue, Rahim Ali could clearly hear the voice of Sheikh Hasina, the leader of his country's opposition, as she addressed a mammoth rally just outside his shop. Soon after Hasina's speech ended, Ali's windowpanes started shaking and cracking. Outside on the avenue, Delwar Hossain, a 26-year-old seller of peanuts, heard a loud noise and thought at first that the tire of a truck must have burst. A moment later, Quddus Miah, a street-side garment vendor, saw thousands of people, many wounded and bleeding, stampeding down the road; his first instinct...
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