Geopolitics and Resistance Trump and Modi Part 5 of 6

Описание: Public Meeting - Geopolitics & Resistance: South Asia in a time of Trump and Modi

Monday 6th February 2017

UCL Institute of Education, London

Speakers:
• Kavita Krishnan - Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Secretary of All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA)
• Mirza Waheed - Kashmiri novelist and commentator
• Nirmala Rajasingam -legal and human rights activist, South Asia Solidarity Group
• Mahvish Ahmad co-founder of Pakistani left feminist magazine Tanqeed, anti-war organiser & member of the Awami Workers Party.
• Ko Aung - key human rights activist and organiser, political prisoner during Burma's former military dictatorship, teaches International Protection of Human Rights at LSBU

The meeting reflected on questions that included
• How would the relationship between the two nuclear armed powers, India and Pakistan, be affected by the Trump Presidency?
• How is the Modi government's Hindutva brand of ultra-nationalism and communalism impacting on the South Asian region?
• How will the people of Kashmir, in the aftermath of the horrific summer of 2016, be affected by the changing geopolitics of the region?
• What would America's growing belligerence towards China and cosy relationship with Hindutva fascism mean for South Asia?
• To what extent are Sinhala Buddhist nationalism and Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka affected by Hindutva and the dominance of Indian corporate interests in the region?
• What are the political forces behind the slow burning genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya


Film by Keval Bharadia