Commentaries by Oshin Malpani

The Double-Edged Sword of Coronavirus: Lost Livelihood and Other Risks to Sanitation Workers

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The Double-Edged Sword of Coronavirus: Lost Livelihood and Other Risks to Sanitation Workers

May 13, 2020 01:14:22 am

The spread of COVID-19 infection cases has accelerated with fervid intensity over the past few weeks, with the tally of infections reported by the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) at a whopping 4,254,302 cases (as of May 12, 2020). India itself, battling with an infection rate doubling every [...]

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On November 24, 1969, US Army Lt. William L. Calley was ordered to stand trial by court martial for the massacre of over 100 civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in March 1968. Read an overview of the My Lai Massacre Trial by Professor Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in JURIST's Famous Trials series.

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