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Jallad: Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia
Tasneem Khalil
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Description for Jallad: Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia
Paperback. Jallad provides deep, cutting edge analysis of the politics and state mechanisms that perpetuate human rights abuses in South Asia. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; JPVH; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135. .
Extrajudicial execution, enforced disappearance and torture – these are the tools used by death squads across South Asia. Across the region, human rights abuses are perpetrated behind the closed doors by the 'jallad', or hangmen, of secret detention facilities, while death squads roam the streets with impunity.
By using first-hand experience and newly discovered sources, Tasneem Khalil connects these abuses to a disturbing fact - that Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are national security states connected to an international system of state terror, patronised by sponsors like the United States, the United Kingdom, China and ... Read more
Extrajudicial execution, enforced disappearance and torture – these are the tools used by death squads across South Asia. Across the region, human rights abuses are perpetrated behind the closed doors by the 'jallad', or hangmen, of secret detention facilities, while death squads roam the streets with impunity.
By using first-hand experience and newly discovered sources, Tasneem Khalil connects these abuses to a disturbing fact - that Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are national security states connected to an international system of state terror, patronised by sponsors like the United States, the United Kingdom, China and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745335704
SKU
V9780745335704
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Ref
99-27
About Tasneem Khalil
Tasneem Khalil is an exiled Bangladeshi journalist who previously worked for The Daily Star, CNN, Human Rights Watch and has written for the International Herald Tribune, NPR, Guardian, Washington Post and BBC and is the author of Jallad: Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia (Pluto, 2015). He was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International in 2007, ... Read more
Reviews for Jallad: Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia
'An important message to states to ensure accountability and respect human rights'
Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, Human Rights Watch 'A powerful and frightening document that traces how political independence mutated into a celebration of the growing power of the military'
Jeremy Seabrook, writer and researcher; author of 'The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from ... Read more
Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, Human Rights Watch 'A powerful and frightening document that traces how political independence mutated into a celebration of the growing power of the military'
Jeremy Seabrook, writer and researcher; author of 'The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from ... Read more