Malaysia – “Truly Asia”? Or a Cynical Marketing Ploy?
For many years, Malaysia has enjoyed an image that suggests it to be a rapidly developing prosperous nation that is liberal and modern in its outlook and charitable towards all…
Shaking your Fists and Do Something!
By Dr. Richard L. Benkin Address to Telugu Association of North America (TANA) Rosemont, IL (Suburban Chicago) I was asked to come here today to talk about the ethnic cleansing…
Why no outrage over persecuted Hindus?
By Richard L. Benkin Guest Commentary Hindu women celebrate a religious festival inside a tent set up for the occasion in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The number of Hindus has radically decreased…
Will Bangladeshi Hindus be ignored Again?
By Dr. Richard L. Benkin for Asian Tribune from Chicago Dr. Richard BenkinLess than a week after the Mumbai terror attacks, United States Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was in…
Repeal Enemy Property Act & show the support
Dr. Benkin Bangladesh Hindu Buddhists Christian Unity Council global chapters joined in a conference call on Saturday, 10th Jan 2009, just after the election. Global OP leaders called upon the…
Strange silence on Islamist terror
Richard L Benkin Obama should have spoken up for the Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh who face terrible atrocities. But he has chosen to remain stunningly silent on South Asia’s…
Why this silence on organised anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh?
Richard L Benkin Reports began trickling out of Bangladesh this spring about an anti-Hindu violence in the heart of its capital carried out in three stages: March 30, April 17,…
Bangladeshi Hindu Abducted, Forced to Convert to Islam: Update
I previously reported on the abduction of a young Hindu woman from her family’s home in northern Bangladesh (Bangladeshi Hindu Abducted, Forced to Convert to Islam, Canada Free Press, August…
More Silence about Islamist Ethnic Cleansing
Richard L. Benkin In a few weeks, I again will be with in a number of illicit camps throughout North and Northeast India. They fled to the world’s largest democracy…
Left ignores real human rights victims
Whenever I tell people I “do human rights work,” they automatically assume I am some sort of leftist. People who know me find that hilarious; but it is rather tragic…