INDIA
Assam register: Four million risk losing India citizenship
BBC News / July 30
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove they came to the state by 24 March 1971, a day before neighbouring Bangladesh declared independence.
India says the process is needed to identify illegal Bangladeshi migrants.
ROHINGYA
Rohingya Muslims who remain in Myanmar struggle to survive
The Wall Street Journal / Aug. 8
Most of Abdul Solay’s family joined last year’s vast exodus of Rohingya from Myanmar, as government troops torched homes and opened fire on villages in a spasm of ethnically motivated violence. Mr. Solay decided to stay behind — and now he is struggling to survive.
Myanmar official line: Rohingya are returning. But cracks in that story abound.
The New York Times / Aug. 2
We waded through floodwaters, past soldiers hefting rifles, and climbed into a prefabricated hut.
Inside, a row of men sat huddled against the wall as armed police and immigration officers stood over them. They were, we had been given the impression, among the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who had fled northern Rakhine State in Myanmar for Bangladesh last year in an exodus that the United States and other countries condemned as ethnic cleansing.
SYRIA
Armed groups recruiting children in camps
Human Rights Watch / Aug. 3
The People’s Protection Units (YPG), the largest member of the Syrian Democratic Forces military alliance in northeast Syria, has been recruiting children, including girls, and using some in hostilities despite pledges to stop the practice, Human Rights Watch said today.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Congo’s Kabila will not stand for election in December
Reuters / Aug. 8
Congo’s President Joseph Kabila will not stand in the election scheduled for December, a spokesman said, finally agreeing to obey a two-term limit but picking a hard-core loyalist under European Union sanctions to stand instead.
UGANDA
The details of life in a refugee camp
BBC News / Aug. 6
Since civil war broke out in South Sudan, in 2013, more than a million South Sudanese refugees have crossed the border into neighbouring Uganda.
Tommy Trenchard’s pictures focus on commonplace objects and details to convey day-to-day life in several refugee camps near the border.
CAMEROON
Cameroon’s anglophone war, part 1: A rifle as the only way out
IRIN / Aug. 6
Before the army destroyed his village and killed his three brothers, Abang was a farmer and an electrician. Today, he’s one of hundreds of anglophone men fighting with hunting rifles and magical amulets against the US- and French-trained Cameroonian army in an attempt to win independence for a new country they call Ambazonia.
UNITED STATES
How transitional justice can help the U.S. defeat terrorism
Just Security / Aug. 6
It may seem odd that the National Security Strategy discusses accountability for mass atrocities on the same page as defeating transnational terror. What could justice have to do with fighting terrorists? More than you might think.
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