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Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides

...arming rise in the number of suicides ever since a separatist campaign erupted in Jammu and Kashmir way back in 1989 . Unfortunately, most such incidents have gone unnoticed. Although police records show that there were 736 cases of attempted suicide from 2001 until May this year in the Kashmir Valley, the pi...

Thai Separatists Burn School, Kill Four

... the region since January 2004, when a decades-old separatist struggle turned to more brutal tactics such as beh...r direct rule of the Thai bureaucracy in 1902. A separatist struggle took off in the 1950s, fuelled by government efforts to suppress the local culture and reli...

Women's Separatist Group Opposes Sex Education in Kashmir

The women's separatist outfit, Dukhtaran-e-Milat (DeM) Monday opposed introduction of sex education in Kashmir schools despite officials having no such plans. Addressing a media conference here, Asiya Andrabi, the DeM chief said, "We shall oppose tooth and nail the nefa...

Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats

...iation. The two associations have not named the separatist group for fear of reprisal. "There is a lurking fear that the militants would target us to extract the extortion amount served on the drug dealers," a pharmacy owner in capital Imphal told IANS on condition of anonymity. Some drugstores opened Mo...

Indonesia's Acehnese Suffer High Rates of Mental Trauma

...ber or friend killed during the unrest between the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and government forces, the report said, according to an IOM press release. The affected Acehnese, if left untreated, could possibly be triggers for further violence, the report's authors warned. "These memories are alive i...

Cancer-hit Geelani to Travel Abroad for Specialized Treatment

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, diagnosed with renal...sidence in the capital. Doctors have advised the separatist leader to go abroad and undergo specialised treatment of laser therapy to remove cancer cells from h...

Malaria Epidemic Forces Assam Rebels Out Of The Jungle

Dozens of separatist guerrillas in Assam were forced out of the jungles not by the armed forces, but by the mosquitoes, seeking treatment for malaria.// A police spokesperson said a malaria epidemic sweeping Assam and its adjoining areas have forced rebels of the outlaw...

Soldier of Revenge

... house and dying. The terrorists, believed to be separatist guerrillas fighting to secede Jammu and Kashmir, vanished from the scene. "I will not return to my village," Rajinder told IANS at the hospital, weeping and wiping his tears. "I have no one to take care of me. I don't want to be a teacher. I want t...

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