this north—western town of mannar is strategically located, and there were intense clashes between thel war, which ended with the defeat of the tamil tiger rebels in 2009. and this is one of the biggest mass graves they have found so far in the last ten years of post—conflict period. and the experts here, they think more bodies could have been buried here underneath this place, and this work will take a further few weeks to complete, and then judicial officials will order a further investigation to find out how these people died, and where these people came from, and what really happened to them. wild bears in vietnam facing extinction are now under further threat as the demand increases for their bile to be used in traditional asian medicine. it has also meant that prices are plummeting for the bile from caged bears, an illegal business, but widespread in the country. brian crudge is research programme manager at the campaigning organisation free the bears. i asked him how widespread bear farming is in vietnam. we recently published research looking at the conservation challenges and

so when they are not seeking a benign monarch to protect them they're all too likely to behave mannar quickly themselves, trying to control others. in this way, too, fear erodes reciprocity that is needed if democracies are to survive. and it leads onward to anger which divides in what is most needed is a constructive approach to an uncertain future. so d says, you mentioned anger. that makes me ask another question. why this emphasis on fear? are there not many emotions that threaten democracy? what about anger in fact? shouldn't we worry about that emotion even more than about fear, given its aggressive tendencies? people also think that india is a major threat to democracy, fomenting class conflict. finally, there's been a lot written about the role of discussed in racism and homophobia and other forms of stigma and discrimination. m says you're entirely right and the chapters of this book will indeed address these different emotions and interconnections, but having many years on each emotion and isolation from others, i have come to realize that my previous strategy obscured some