military activities
Difficult Conditions in a Buid Community
Living conditions are difficult in sitio Danlog, a Buid community in southern Mindoro Island in the Philippines. The frequent violence perpetrated by Filipino soldiers makes it hard for the Buid to maintain their traditionally peaceful lives. According to an article last week in Bulatlat.com, an alternative news source in the Philippines, the Buid and the […]
A New Road for the Buid
Units of the Philippine Army, aided by army engineers, have just completed a road that should benefit some of the Buid people of southern Mindoro Island. A report by a Philippine news agency on August 30 indicated that one of the primary purposes of the road is to provide access to market services for the […]
Measures for Peace in Ladakh
Since most peaceful societies exist as minorities within larger, more forceful, nation states, they are influenced by the whims, conflicts, and violence of the majority peoples. The Ladakhi, though relatively isolated in their mountain valleys, are very much part of the tensions that affect the rest of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, in northern […]
Army History in Ladakh
In October 2006, the Indian army celebrated a long tradition of militarism in Ladakh by reopening the Zorawar Fort, near Leh, with a sight and sound show for tourists—and, presumably, Ladakhis proud of having been conquered in the 1830s. General Zorawar Singh led an army, called the Dogras, from the city of Jammu over the […]
Operation Sadbhavana in Ladakh [journal article review]
Operation Sadbhavana has been a military strategy of the Indian Army to win the hearts and minds of the remote Ladakhi people on the militarized borders of northern India. A recent article in the journal Military Medicine explains, and carefully justifies, the outreach services, particularly the medical interventions, in the high, Himalayan valleys. The three […]
New Report Details Crimes Against the Mbuti [book review]
Colin Turnbull’s The Forest People describes the Ituri Forest and the Mbuti who live there. But how well has the forest protected them during the recent wars in Eastern Congo? This question should haunt anyone fascinated by the forest-dwelling peoples that Turnbull portrayed over 40 years ago in his international best seller, plus his other, […]
