Bangladesh

A 40-Year Quest for Justice

courtesy; nytimes  By SHAHIDUL ALA DHAKA, Bangladesh FOR the past month, tens of thousands of Bangladeshis have filled Shahbagh Square here, demanding justice for crimes committed in 1971, when Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) attained its independence from Pakistan. Ordinary people — grandparents, people in wheelchairs, men with beards, women in hijab, […]

Hundreds of New Yorkers protest political unrest in Bangladesh

source: pix11.com  http://landing.newsinc.com/wpix/video.html?freewheel=91044&sitesection=wpix&VID=24614910 http://embed.newsinc.com/Single/iframe.html?WID=1&VID=24614910&freewheel=69016&sitesection=wpix&width=601&height=338 NEW YORK (PIX11)- Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the United Nations today. The group, predominantly Bangladeshi-Americans, came together over political unrest in Bangladesh. Life in the small South-Asian country has been disrupted over the past several months, many blaming Jamaat-e-Islami militant political group. The protesters outside of the […]

Train torched in Dhaka

Source: BD news 24 Miscreants have set a train on fire at Dhaka’s Kamalapur Railway Station, the nerve-centre of Bangladesh’s rail network, in the last leg of the two-day strike called by Jamaat-e-Islami. Railways Minister Mazibul Hoque has blamed the Jamaat for the act of arson. The attack on the […]

Bangladesh: The ghosts of 1971

Source/Credit: Aljazeera In 1971, Bangladesh declared independence from Pakistan and fought a bloody war to establish itself as a fledgling nation. More than four decades on, a country born out of troubles and bloodshed is experiencing growing pains. A war crimes tribunal that was meant to bring closure has instead […]