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South Asia - New Phase of ResSouth Asia - New Phase of Resistance in Bangladesh - Soumitra Bose Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation international team A tiny hamlet in the southern part of Bangladesh, woke up shivering on a broad daylight. A minor Hindu girl is being raped by more than 10 very well known strong and powerful men of the neighbourhood. The entire village saw the act, the entire village knows the perpetrators better than they ever know their own family members. They have tied the elderly mother, tortured them, killed the father and the brother, tied up...

ZAGREB, Croatia, Oct. 29 (JTA) — The primary image of European Jews during World War II is of sickly prisoners stuck in ghettos and concentration camps. But in Croatia, Jews are remembering a group that turned that stereotype on its head. Two recent events honored a little-known but heroic World War II story: a Jewish combat battalion made up of inmates of a former Italian-run concentration camp on the Croatian island of Rab. The Rab Jewish battalion — originally 245 Jews aged 15-30 with little military training, and one medical unit with 35 girls who offered to serve as nurses...