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Abstract/Sommario: Lohit and Anjaw districts in Arunachal Pradesh survive on the illegal cultivation of opium. Opium addiction is a major problem in this once-poor valley, mostly among the male population. Apparently, the government has done little to check this

Abstract/Sommario: With the death of the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabakaran, the militant campaign for a Tamil state in Sri Lanka seems to have come to an end. Gli articoli: The war is over / B. M. Reddy (it would be a mistake to see the end of the war as a demise of the cause that gave birth to the LTTE. If the government does not act fast enough to resettle the war-displaced and find a political solution to the conflict, new challenges will emerge); Final Hours / B. M. Reddy ( an eyewitness account of t ...; [Leggi tutto...] With the death of the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabakaran, the militant campaign for a Tamil state in Sri Lanka seems to have come to an end. Gli articoli: The war is over / B. M. Reddy (it would be a mistake to see the end of the war as a demise of the cause that gave birth to the LTTE. If the government does not act fast enough to resettle the war-displaced and find a political solution to the conflict, new challenges will emerge); Final Hours / B. M. Reddy ( an eyewitness account of the last 70 hours of Eelam War IV); Succession squabble / R. Hariharan (Prabakaran was the heart and soul of the LTTE and his death has left a big void in its leadership. As he did not nominate any successor, any new aspirant for the leadership will have to gain the acceptance of the LTTE's three constituencies: the fighting elements, the expatriate segment and fellow travellers); Democracy deficit and two movements / B. M. Reddy (Asian Human Rights Commission draws a parallel between the militant policy of the Marxist party JVP and the LTTE; the LTTE's avowed goal of a separate state achieved by force alone shut out democratic discourse); Some pillars of Lanka's future / M. Roberts (The 'Sri Lankan' identity must now be built upon a confederative principle that recognises the existence of several communities as well as the three nations within the entity Lanka - the Sinhalese, the Tamils, and the Muslims); Changing equations / J. Cherian (New Delhi shares some of the apprehensions of the West, especially on matters relating to China's role in its 'backyard' and the welfare of the hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees living in camps)