Best book for self defense without weapons?

Hi there,

I am 31 year old male from Bangladesh. I am short, thin, weak due to physical conditions. I also have OCD, Anxiety and my behavior is a bit weird to people. For instance, I rarely make eye contact, look unaware and too much focused on using my phone, look unconfident and weak. In other words I look like an easy target. I am also an atheist and although I am not public about it, its easily deducable in my conversations and given that I do not pray.

Also here in Bangladesh, ANYTHING that you carry with the intention of using a weapon is against the law and is punishable with 10 years of jail. The government heavily enforces this law and so even pepper spray or a blade razor for shaving leads to long prison sentences. THey even forbid carrying pens in stadiums. Armed violence is limited to machetes (repurposed from its agricultural use) or sticks and knives but not weapons because of the heavy enforcement. If weapons were illegal, I think it would have been a wild west with each political party murdering the other given how even with such laws they still manage to kill civilians and each other with firebombs, machetes, assassinations etc in broad daylight.

Now the crime statistics are not accurate given its a developing country, so most people don't trust them. The intentional homicide rate is actually 2.4 while for USA its 6.3 per 100,000. But in regards to other crimes, people think they are very high because they often go unreported.

The country scores 124 out of 139 in the Rule of Law Index. As per human rights organizations, the police mainly deals with sensational cases and maintains law and order to prevent political violence. They also have a record of extrajudicial killing, torture, abduction. People do not rely on the police when they are the victims of crime because they have a reputation for taking bribes, delaying the case for decades, not taking a case in the first place etc.

Its hard to describe in a few paragraphs, but this is definitely not the wild west as shown by the low homicide rate. Crime is not rampant and the country is certainly not lawless like you see in movies. But still in some aspects it is lawless: for instance, in a road rage situation people would often gather and beat you up in front of the police. No one is publicly an atheist or LGBT because they are usually killed by terrorists with machetes. There is high levels of harassment of women, racketeering by political parties, mugging, robbery etc.

So my question is, can someone suggest a book that teaches people who are weak, mentally ill and a vulnerable target (like Atheist) to stay safe in a country with a practically ineffective law and justice system?

Submitted May 01, 2022 at 02:37AM by Experimentalphone https://ift.tt/2spj1XY