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Victims of 2010 Night Raid in Uruzgan Call for Compensation

By Barialai Ansari in ToloNews, May 30,2023 at 9:21 PMFamily members of victims of a night raid that they say was conducted by Australian forces in 2010 in Kakrag, Uruzgan, said they should be paid compensation. Residents claim that “at least 60 people were killed, and 59 others were wounded” in a night raid by Australian forces in Kakrag village of Tarinkot city. TOLOnews interviewed victims and their family members. According to the residents, the…

Enforced Disappearances: Form independent body to punish culprits, urge families of victims

report in The Daily Star, May 28, 2023The rights activists and the family members of enforced disappearance victims called upon the government to set up an independent commission to investigate the cases of enforced disappearances and punish the responsible agencies and individuals. The family members of the victims stood in front of the Jatiya Press Club yesterday. The gathering was organised by Maayer Daak, a platform for the families of the victims, in commemoration of…

Loan shark victims brave inclement weather to continue protest

by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, May 3, 2023On May 1, when the world marked the International Workers’ Day, 70-year-old Ram Kawal Chamar was sitting quietly in a tent at Shanti Batika, Ratnapark with one arm in a plaster cast. Chamar, one of the several loan shark victims, was badly injured on April 17 during a clash between the police and hundreds of other such victims when they tried to reach Singha Durbar to…

Sri Lanka must find out truth of 2019 Easter blasts, say survivors and families of victims

by Dimuthu Attanayake in SCMP, Apr 9, 2023Almost four years ago, Rupika Rosairo’s two daughters left the family home in Colombo in their Sunday best to attend Easter mass with their grandmother. But that evening, her 13-year-old younger daughter returned home in a coffin. Rosairo’s children were victims of Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings that killed more than 260 people and injured some 400, after eight local Islamist militants blew up three churches and hotels in…

Dahal accused of trying to appease conflict victims:

By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, March 22, 2023The Pushpa Kamal Dahal government on Monday announced a cash relief for the thousands of former CPN (Maoist) combatants who were disqualified for integration into the Nepal Army as they were underage or late recruits during the UN verification in 2007. The Cabinet will first prepare a working procedure for the distribution of cash. Earlier, the Supreme Court had stalled an attempt of the then prime…

Frightening statistics

Editorial in The News, Dec 28, 2022Sexual abuse of children and minors is becoming a rampant problem across Pakistan, but the way it has surged in Karachi should be alarming for the city police. Over 200 cases of minor sexual abuse have been reported in one year till the last week of 2022; this number does not include other cases which went unreported. According to reports, the most vulnerable age group is from five to…