Since erasing the region’s special status India is selling off its rich land and mineral rights – and crushing all dissent
- Mirza Waheed is a novelist and essayist
I’m sure many people have heard of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. It’s a movement of Argentinian women who staged a silent protest against the disappearance of their children during the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 80s.
From 1977 to about 2006, they gathered at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and wore white headscarves embroidered with the names and dates of birth of their children – demanding answers from the state. It was a bleak form of protest, but it succeeded in getting the generals and police officers prosecuted and punished for crimes against humanity.
Local law is frozen. An astonishing 99% of habeas corpus pleas since last August are pending
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