The Situation:

India is characterized by many different ethnic groups and eight major religions. There have recently been growing tensions between groups of tigers and cows in India. The Cow-Tiger tensions date back many years. The partition of 1947 was a critical part of this tension. The partition did not solve the conflict between the tigers and cows, it only made the relationship worse. This conflict between the two animal groups got the Pakistan animals stuck in as well. Pakistan and Indian animals kept the communal tension alive between them and pushed the tigers to defend their loyalty to India. Now, the tensions between the cows and tigers have become even worse.

Tigers are a minority compared to cows in India. Tigers only have a majority in one state. These two animals share very different cultures. The animals have rioted in middle-sized towns such as Ranchi, Hyderabad, and Baroda as well as industrialized cities like Bombay and Delhi. The police in recent riots have been siding with the cows to spread feelings of discrimination toward the tigers. Electoral politics have also contributed by making matters worse between the two animal groups. There are communal cow parties with independence who are more powerful than the tigers who are a minority. The latest example of this was the communal campaigning made by the Congress in the Assam elections.

The cows have a more nationalist attitude now and have tensions with all other groups of animals. Other animals not explicitly involved are trying to warn their families and friends about the conflict but before they can do so they go missing. These animals trying to send out warnings are not safe and more are turning up missing or dead. It is becoming more and more dangerous for these reporting animals to spread the news of the Cow-Tiger conflicts.

 

HR: class notes & https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/ethnic-and-religious-conflicts-india

 

          The Burmese Legume Company was very micromanaged. Employees were always left in the dark on what decisions were being made and the CEO did not let any employees know anything they didn’t need to. He made it clear that there was a lot of business that was being conducted that was better left unknown to the companies’ employees. After some legal struggles and pressure from other business leaders, the CEO of Burmese Legumes left the company. Naturally, a new CEO stepped in.  

          The new CEO came in and wanted to bring some change to how the company was being run. He even rebranded the company and renamed it back to its original name, Myanmar Legumes. However, there was not as much change as the company and its employees would have liked to see. Similar company policies were left in place, and many employees felt that there was no change at all. This bothered many, including the other companies that had just recently put pressure on the old CEO to resign. The new CEO seems fearful of involving the company’s employees in on important information. 

          This is not how a company should be run. It is unfair to the employees and the company will not be able to succeed without everyone being on the same page on company affairs. Whether it calls for a second change to the company’s CEO or an extreme change in new company policy, there are changes that need to be made. There is and likely will be more pressure from other companies on Myanmar Legumes to make these changes, and it is agreed upon by many of the bigger companies in the Legume market that there needs to be changes due to the treatment of many employees.    

It had been calm in Bangladesh for the most part. Throughout history Bangladesh has suffered from many monsoons. These monsoons have sometimes been beneficial, but long ago they came from further across the ocean and seemed to last forever. This monsoon set the tempo for much of what would follow in the years to come. After that monsoon left the lands of Bangladesh, things improved. 

 

Years later, a new monsoon came, but this time it helped the people and assisted in the growth of crops because of the water it provided. This monsoon had shifted from Pakistan to Bangladesh to help different areas of the region. The monsoon had begun to rage and seek destruction within Bangladesh. After some time had passed, the people of Bangladesh got tired of the monsoon hanging around over their land. They wanted to get rid of the rain because the monsoon began to wash away their resources. Soon after the people became independent, Bangladesh began to thrive on its own. 

 

In recent years, a new monsoon has made its mark on Bangladesh. This monsoon has been filled with violence. It has wiped out government officials and drowned out electrical services. Though the electricity has been on and off for a while now, it seems to be getting worse and worse. The people of Bangladesh are working to overcome the setbacks that the monsoon has enforced on the people. Maybe in the near future the monstrous monsoon of Bangladesh will be depleted of its resources like many that have caused disaster in the past.

(Sri Lanka is famous for producing tea so I used it as a metaphor for an uprising)

As the finest producers of tea in the world, Sri Lanka is no stranger to what great tea tastes like. Our shop, the Sri Lankan Tea Traders have created a brand new tea flavor, the Fire Dragon. We have been working on the Fire Dragon tea for months and it is finally now packaged and ready to be drank by all of Sri Lanka, and the world! It is a spicy, warm and unique tea that is sure to surprise and change the way you think about Sri Lankan tea. This tea is perfect for anyone, even those who don’t like tea, or who have never had it before. We are going to make the world debut of the Fire Dragon in Sri Lanka on September 27th, 2019. This is going to be a very important event for Sri Lances, so everyone should be there to see and try this wonderful tea!

Ethnic Tensions in Pakistan

The city of Karachi is the epicenter of Pakistan’s latest surge in political violence. This is because the port city is home to large scale ethnic and sectarian divisions that are always primed to explode on the streets. The largest ethnic group in the city are the Mohajirs, descendants of those who fled from India in the 1947 partition. They make up half of the population with the Punjabis and Pathans making up the other respective quarters. The Mohajirs of Pakistan have organized into a radical pro-government group called the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and are at the head of political tension in the city.

The violence has claimed several dozen lives in the past few years and left the city paralyzed in a general strike. The pro-government Mohajirs stage rallies to protest opposition movements, and these rallies often end in violence. The Mohajirs round up opposition members hold public trials and often publicly execute the ethnic minorities. At times the Mohjairs grab people who are not even in an opposition movement and execute them simply because of their status as Punjabis or Pathans.

 

Situation:

There is little action from law enforcement against Mohajir rallies which has given undue legitimacy to their actions on the streets of Karachi. However, recent foreign intervention has placed a temporary hold on the Mohajir’s ability to organize. The founder of MQM Altaf Hussain was recently arrested in London under investigation for inciting political violence in Pakistan and Europe. With Hussain imprisoned the MQM are at the moment unorganized and not able to mobilize more violence. It is unlikely that Hussain will be incarcerated for his acts and might soon be back into the fold of his organization. However, with the MQM increasingly be looked at on the global stage the Pakistani government may be more inclined to control the actions of this groups before they have more incidents on their hands that could lead to greater repercussions that they rather avoid (I.E. sanctions).

 

Situation: 

As the war in Sri Lanka ends and the Tamil Tigers have been defeated the Sri Lankan government has displaced roughly a quarter of a million Tamils into internment camps. These camps are highly secured by dense barbed wire and are very unsuitable for living. The Sri Lankan military has prevented humanitarian groups from monitoring and protecting the Tamil containment camps.

 

With mounting pressure on the Sri Lankan government, there have been multiple promises made to release the Tamils from the camps. It has been a challenge to gauge whether the government has released Tamils. Some sources say that the government has said they release Tamils, however, in reality, the Tamils have just been moved to a different campsite. 

 

As a compromise to the external pressure, the Sri Lankan government now promises “day passes” to the Tamils. This allows the Tamil to travel at a certain time and only go a certain distance. Once the time has elapsed the Tamils must return to the camps and wait for their chance to go out again. Recognizing the current issue in Sri Lanka the UN Secretary warns the Sri Lankan government about the dangers of the current policy, then there could potentially be increasing tensions with the Tamils or even worse an unexpected uprising against the government. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Containment of the Sri Lankan Junglefowl:

In overcrowded and unsanitary pastures, in northern Sri Lanka, there are millions of Sri Lankan Junglefowl are jammed into on confined pasture. Each day is the same: they gaze upon the greener grass on the other side of the barbed wire fence patiently awaiting their fate. Every so often a curious Junglefowl will push the boundaries and attempt to jump the barbed fence to graze the luscious grass on the other side. Unknowingly, any Junglefowl who tries to achieve a better life oftentimes is greeted by death. 

 

The living conditions within the Junglefowl pasture are inadequate with no clean drinking water, poor sanitation and stuffed full. As substantial rain continually rolls in from the north the Junglefowls living conditions will only get crueler. The caregivers of the Junglefowl have made several promises to improve the living conditions and even release some Junglefowl to a more suitable pasture for grazing. 

 

Neighboring herdsmen have been checking on the herder who treats the Junglefowl so poorly. However, it is hard for the neighbors to determine whether the Junglefowl herder has begun to move them to a better pasture or even improving upon the existing pasture. With time the Junglefowl herder permits the Junglefowl to leave the pasture for a limited amount of time and can only go but so far. Once the time is up the Junglefowl must return to the unsuitable pasture. With little to no say the Junglefowl patiently wait, for help from neighboring herdsmen, for their opportunity to flock away from the horrid pasture to new, better pastures. However, should the herdsmen continue to neglect care towards the Junglefowl. Then, the Junglefowl are likely to resent the herdsmen and flock away from the pastures.

 

HR: Goggle to search Sri Lankan animals, and the article which the info was derived from https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka/situation-sri-lanka

This article commented on the conveniently timed TV interview of Pakistan’s leading opposition politician Asif Ali Zardari. Only a few minutes into his TV interview the channel broadcasting was shut down temporarily, when it came back Zardari’s interview was not continued, instead it was replaced by an old video of one of the current ruling party’s leading political figures. BBC got some feedback from an undisclosed source. The source said that this is normal and that the military establishment censors the media both by intimidating channels not to broadcast negative content, but also by prompting channels to push out their own narrative that supports the military and ruling party.

I find it hard to really come up with a question besides, what can the international community do to stop the oppression in Pakistan? The prime minister denies that Pakistan censors the media, but the data suggests otherwise. Reporters have been beaten and channels have been cancelled for weeks on end; so what can the international community do?

 

Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49088653

The states of Pakistan and India were created by a process called Partition upon the withdrawel of the British from the South Asian continent. As South Asian Muslims demanded their own state the British devised the plan to separate the Muslim population from the Hindu population. Any area predominantly inhabited by Muslims would become Pakistan and any area predominantly inhabited by Hindus would become India. Hindus living in areas that were assigned to Pakistan often chose to resettle in India and Muslims living in areas that were assigned to India often chose to resettle in Pakistan. The result was a massive population transfer.

The Partition plan, however, did not provide any solutions for other major ethnic groups, like the Sikhs, or for any of the so-called Princely States, like Kashmir, which was predominantly populated by Muslims but ruled by a Hindu Maharadja. Tensions arose as to whether the ruling prince or the population should decide over the future of Kashmir. In 1947 a tribal rebellion breaks out over demands for a referendum. Pakistan aided those forces and soon the  capital Srinagar was surrounded by insurgents and the Maharaja’s royal forces were defeated. The Maharaja turned to India for help. India was willing to help under the condition that Kashmir agrees to accession to India. The insurgency was topped but Kashmir was de facto divided along the various factious parties  – with some parts being under India’s control and others under Pakistani rule.

Currently, India is redefining its governing relationship with Kashmir.

https://www.firstpost.com/india/secret-life-of-article-370-nehrus-use-of-ruthless-force-to-integrate-kashmir-behind-veil-of-special-status-offers-lessons-for-today-7187891.html?fbclid=IwAR2-kCVD1ScqMBX_00qnD1Ml1rt-RlELo23vAy2rdacyZGFA88GFl-boSSw