How terror became more important than human rights. And why this only leads to more terror. Three lessons from Chechnya, Kashmir and Sri Lanka.
Freedom is everything. But suppressed peoples live only with the dream of freedom. Freedom fighters get labeled terrorists, while in the meantime the regime can do what it wants. How continuous cruelty and unpunished crime can keep a people in a stranglehold.
Hanne Couderé traveled through Chechnya, Sri Lanka and Kashmir in search of victims of suppressing regimes.
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- 'Dit land bewijst: wie terrorisme zaait, zal terrorisme oogsten' (De Correspondent, 6 februari 2014)
- 'Dossier spiraal van geweld': (MO*, 18 februari 2015)
- 'Tsjetsjenië: "Wie terreur zaait, zal terrorisme oogsten"' (MO*, 18 februari 2015)
- 'Sri Lanka: Als een genocide de oplossing is, moet men de reactie vrezen' (MO*, 19 februari 2015)
- 'Kasjmir: Wie geen stenen aanvaardt, krijgt kogels' (MO*, 20 februari 2015)
- 'Dagen en nachten van paranoia en achtervolging' (MO*, 21 februari 2015)
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