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Craft, Currencies, and Ritual Orders in a Northern Thai village

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September 18, 2015 - 09:28 -

Henrik Kloppenborg Møller is an anthropologist and PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, Lund University. His PhD project examines the organization of the trade in jade between Northern Myanmar and China, and the role of jade in Chinese cosmology. Henrik

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Ethnic cleansing and genocidal massacres 65 years ago by Ishtiaq Ahmed

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February 25, 2021 - 14:31 -

One of the completest cases of ethnic cleansing – that entailed the murder of 500,000-800,000 Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs – took place in 1947 in the Punjab Province of British India. Until now very little research had been conducted on

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So..what is the definition of Genocide, again?

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July 19, 2012 - 10:28 -

Rohingya: Rohingya is an ethnic minority with dark skin, Muslim beliefs and, for the most part, no citizenship anywhere. Some groups live as sea nomads.  Others live as illegal immigrants in Thailand, India or Bangladesh. Some live in refugee camps

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A brief report from a Burma visit 13-21 February 2012

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March 13, 2012 - 14:42 -

Mikael Gravers, Aarhus University The situation: On the surface there is a more relaxed mood in Rangoon when I visited Burma. However, all agree that the old totalitarian system is still working. People are still arrested during the night. Thus,

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Some thoughts about the background to the recent events in Urumchi from a sociolinguist’s point of view

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July 13, 2009 - 09:07 -

Joakim Enwall
Associate Professor
Chinese Language and Culture
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Uppsala University

July 12, 2009

Introduction

Asia Portal Xinjiang, China, minorities, poverty, terrorism No Comments Read more

Europe and the suffering people of Burma/Myanmar

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March 5, 2009 - 05:02 -

Timo Kivimäki,
Senior Researcher
NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

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Uyghurs in Xinjiang: Causes of resistance and perspectives for future unrest (updated version)

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August 5, 2008 - 05:04 -

Henriette Kristensen

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