Why so few vegetables in Sri Lanka?

Migrants have become the objects of a new, obsessive field of inquiry, like bird watching, based on research and mapping

Jeremy Harding

the triumph of violence depends upon the production of armaments

- Engels

ICG have a new report, Dynamics of Violence in Papua

The BBC, apparently.

@stavvers @mediocredave lol @ the nazis "corrupting" eugenics fucking hell

— BORG OSBOURNE (@_stux_) August 9, 2012

On a recent summer evening 11-year-old Mazlum Akay left his home in Yüregir, a predominantly Kurdish neighbourhood in the southern Turkish city of Adana, to buy sweets at the local corner shop.

Nearby, clashes had broken out between riot police and local youths demonstrating against the solitary confinement of Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan...the schoolboy was struck on the head by a police teargas cartridge. Eight days later, on 5 August, Mazlum died from his wounds and became the 501st child killed by Turkish security forces since 1988, according to Turkish human rights organisations.
here

HRW in India: The Maoists and government forces seem to have little in common except a willingness to target civil society activists

Yemen: 'multiple crises'.

The WFP reports that half of Yemen's children are chronically malnourished and that one out of ten does not live to reach the age of five.