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  • Murdered in Malaysia: The Altantuya Story

    by E.S. Shankar ...
    This is the A-Z of the 2006 murder by C4 plastic explosives of Mongolian national Altantuya who became embroiled in the Malaysian government's US$2.3 billion Scorpene Stealth Submarines procurement contract with France. Author E.S. Shankar makes it clear that the slaying of Altantuya Shaariibuu was not an unpremeditated execution carried out by two "rogue" cops, who had no motive whatsoever to ... Read more

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  • Dongri to Dubai - Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia

    by Hussain Zaidi ...
    Dongri to Dubai is the first ever attempt to chronicle the history of the Mumbai mafia. It is the story of notorious gangsters like Haji Mastan, Karim Lala, Varadarajan Mudaliar, Chhota Rajan, Abu Salem, but above all, it is the story of a young man who went astray despite having a father in the police force. Dawood Ibrahim was initiated into crime as a pawn in the hands of the Mumbai police and ... Read more

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  • Man at the Airport

    How Social Media Saved My Life—One Syrian's Story

    by Hassan Al Kontar ...
    His only weapon was a cellphone. When civil war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE. He refused to return to Syria for compulsory military service and lived illegally before being deported to Malaysia in November 2017. Four months later, unable to obtain a visa for any other country, he became trapped in the arrivals zone at ... Read more

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  • That Sinking Feeling

    Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution; Quarterly Essay 53

    by Paul Toohey ...
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    Paul Toohey searches for the solution our politicians have been unwilling or unable to find, and asks whether, amid the diplomatic turmoil, we’ve now missed our chance.Tony Abbott promised to stop the boats. With the help of Kevin Rudd's 'PNG solution,' he has. But at what cost?In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey tells the dramatic stories of asylum seekers heading from Java to Australia, ... Read more

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  • Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?

    by Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq, Munaza Rashid & Natasha Rather ...
    Series series Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia
    On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian Army pushed their way into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. They pulled the men out of their homes and subjected many to torture, and the women to rape. According to village accounts, as many as 31 women were raped.Twenty-one years later, in 2012, the rape and murder of a ... Read more

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  • Through Her Eyes

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    by Trevor Watson, Melissa Roberts ...
    In Through Her Eyes Australian women correspondents tell their own stories from the frontline – covering the breaking news, the issues and the events that are changing the world. They tell of Russian tanks and Ukrainian mothers fleeing with their children, vicious Afghan warlords, anti-government rebels in Central Africa, terrorist attacks in the United States, and the chaos faced by ordinary ... Read more

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  • Midnight's Borders

    A People's History of Modern India

    by Suchitra Vijayan ...
    A Booklist "Top 10 History Book of 2022"The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested bordersSharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of ... Read more

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  • Axis of Deceit

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    by Andrew Wilkie ...
    In the 2010 federal election, independent candidate Andrew Wilkie grabbed headlines after winning the seat of Denison, and with it a key role in deciding who would form the next government of Australia. Before he was a politician, however, Wilkie was Australia’s most talked-about whistleblower.In March 2003, Wilkie resigned from Australia’s peak intelligence agency in protest over the looming war ... Read more

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  • Me Against the Mumbai Underworld

    by Isaque Bagwan ...
    On some days, you are no less than Sherlock Holmes. But on others, you are just a regular policeman on bundobast duty. Me against the Mumbai Underworld is the story of Isaque Bagwan, three-time recipient of the President's Police Medal for Gallantry and a small-town boy who pursued his big-city dreams and ambitions as an upright police officer. Bagwan, who is credited with carrying out the first ... Read more

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  • Stark Raving Rulers

    by Sean Moncrieff ...
    Stark Raving Rulers is a series of profiles of twenty of the world’s most ruthless dictators.In many forgotten or ignored parts of the world, there are still men who have inherited entire countries from their families, or blatantly rig elections to stay in power. Like latter-day Roman Emperors, they rule according to their whim.- Uzbekistan, where political opponents are boiled to death.- Cameroon ... Read more

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  • Chasing Wrongs and Rights

    A personal journey of fighting for justice around the world

    by Elaine Pearson ...
    The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights – from human trafficking in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia – offering an extremely involving personal account of how far we’ve come, and how far we’ve got to go.Growing up in Perth, Elaine Pearson always dreamt of the wider world. Her ... Read more

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