Description
Book SynopsisA deep, cutting edge analysis of the politics and state mechanisms that perpetuate human rights abuses in South Asia.
Trade Review'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 Tyranny'.
'Not only demands a deeper study of state terror in both South Asia and the world at large, but it also demands justice for all the victims thereof—past, present, and, unfortunately, future' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
1. Introduction: After the Colony
2. Bangladesh: Men in Black
3. India: Brutal Encounters
4. Nepal: The Royal Army
5. Pakistan: Agents of the State
6. Sri Lanka: White Vans
7. State Terror in Post-Colonial South Asia
8. Specialists on Violence
9. International System of State Terror
10. A Note from the Torture Chamber
Notes
Index
