António Vieira da Cruz

Anteontem, Narendra Modi começou uma campanha para modernizar o sistema sanitário na Índia. Foi a varrer as ruas de Nova Deli que o Primeiro-Ministro passou a mensagem. Primeiro-Ministro Modi a limpar as ruas da capital Indiana Depois de ter lançado a campanha Make in India , convidando Indianos e Estrangeiros a investir na Índia, Narendra Modi lan ça agor a a campanha My Clean India  com uma vassoura nas m ãos. A Índia enfrenta assim a poluição urbana e os conhecidos atrasos sanitários, desagradáveis pelo cheiro mas sobretudo graves pela transmissão de doenças. Um relatório das Nações Unidas em Maio indicava que cerca de metade dos Indianos defeca  na rua, levando à propagação de doenças como a cólera, diarreia, disenteria, hepatite A e tifóide. Pegar na vassoura e dar o exemplo foi sem dúvida a melhor forma de passar a mensagem e inspirar outros a fazer o mesmo. ------- Artigos relacionados: grandes fotografias políticas (I) grandes fotografias...

International Crimes Tribunal of Dhaka Yesterday, one of the worse criminals of the XXI century was condemned to life imprisonment. His name is Delwar Hossain Sayedee , he is 74 years old and he was one of the leaders of the extremist party Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh. During the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, he committed brutal crimes against humanity. Being now accused of at least 20 crimes, the case went to Supreme Court and there he was proven guilty of:     torture a leader of the Awami League, Mr Nurul Islam, and arson attack on his house;     killing one and torching house in the village of Chitholia;     killing one and torching 25 houses in the village of Umedpur;     abduction and rape of 3 sisters of Parerhat Bazar;      forcing 100 to 150 Hindus to convert to Islam in Parerhat and other villages. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a Razakar Besides that, he was accused of many other crimes, as killing m...

Artigo sobre a Índia publicado com o apoio do South Asia Democratic Forum no último número do Think South Asia, aqui . --- The Republic of India is a country with 3.287.590 square kilometres of area and an estimated population of 1,24 billion people. Its borders are with Pakistan to the northwest, Tibet (under the Chinese administration), Nepal and Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh and Burma to the northeast. On the Indian Ocean, India’s neighbours are the Maldives to the southwest and Sri Lanka to the southeast. These numbers mean that India has a larger population than Europe (all countries together), or the Americas (North and South), or Africa. We can find an Indian identity, or at least a harmonic set of similar identities within India, making of it the most populous liberal democracy in the world. And, with a birth rate bigger than China, India is set to overtake its neighbour country as the world’s most populous nation by 2030, according to the latest United Na...