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Bangladesh -Jamat-e-Islami misguiding international human rights bodies

Thursday, 07 March 2013 20:28by Farooq Sulehria , viewpointonline.com The Communist Party of Bangladesh or Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dol (Socialist Party) have been unwavering in their commitment to the war criminal trials ‘Sadly, the Awami League has not fully restored the 1972… Continue Reading →

Bangla young crusaders on a song at ‘ carnival’ of protests

ByCaesar Mandal, TNN | Mar 13, 2013, DHAKA: It’s a carnival that’s rocking the entire nation. Quite literally. The Shahbag Movement — fuelled by music, art, blogging and the sheer spontaneity of youth — is teaching a new way of protest to… Continue Reading →

URGENT PRESS RELEASE- condemning attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, Christians in Pakistan

URGENT PRESS STATEMENT Sunday, March 10, 2013 CITIZENS FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE, MUMBAI The Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), Mumbai condemns the attack on innocent Hindus in Bangladesh over the past week and Christians in Pakistan yesterday by a… Continue Reading →

Bangladesh moves Supreme Court for #deathpenalty to Abdul Quader Mollah

PTI Mar 3, 2013, DHAKA: Bangladesh government today moved the Supreme Court seeking death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah, who escaped with life imprisonment from a court here for committing “crimes against humanity” during the country’s independence war in… Continue Reading →

Deconstructing Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh #Sundayreading

 Alal o Dulal – 26 February 2013 Wali Nasr’s Vanguards of the Islamic Revolution is perhaps the best known book on the party available in English. That book, as well as Jamaat’s own literature—in both Bangladesh and Pakistan—makes it clear… Continue Reading →

Shahbag: Story of two hangings; differences in their dynamics #deathpenalty

  The name Shahbag will not evoke much recognition from the Indian pretenders to ‘global citizenship’. Dhaka is the city many Indians believe that ‘they’ liberated in 1971. Shahbag is one of the main street intersections of Dhaka where the… Continue Reading →

Bangladesh amends war crimes law, mulls banning Islamists

By Anis Ahmed DHAKA (Reuters) – DHAKA | Sun Feb Feb 17 (Reuters) – Bangladesh‘s parliament, meeting the demands of protesters thronging the capital, amended a law on Sunday allowing the state to appeal any verdict in war crimes trials it deems… Continue Reading →

Bangladesh war crimes trial: Blogger killed, violence escalates

Feb 17, 2013   Dhaka, Bangladesh: Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, a 30-year-old architect, was found dead near the gate of his home on Friday night, a local police official, Abdul Latif Sheikh, said. An autopsy showed Haider had at least eight… Continue Reading →

Voices from Bangladesh- Youth Power #Sundayreading

   Shayantani, In Bangladesh political parties are mired in corruption. Amongst ordinary people, there is little hope of achieving positive change through party politics. The brutal stabbing of Bishwajit in December 2012 in front of hundreds of people reveals this… Continue Reading →

Protests erupt in Bangladesh after war-crimes verdict

By Farid Ahmed for CNN February 7, 2013 — U Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) — Outraged by a court verdict they considered too lenient, thousands of people took to the streets across Bangladesh on Wednesday demanding the death penalty for an Islamic… Continue Reading →

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