Source: BD news 24 “Jamaat-e-Islami activists” used the protest call given by the 12 “Islamist” and likeminded parties after Friday prayers to “fight back” as they went berserk in different parts of the country including the capital Dhaka, police say. Reports of clashes also came in from Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi […]
Source: Time Magazine. By Jason Motlagh / Dhaka A young girl’s call pierces through the din of the packed square. Like the macabre billboards that loom above featuring bearded old men in nooses, and the blood red headbands worn by scores of participants, her demands are direct and full-throated: “Hang […]
Source: BD News 24. The Awami League and its allies on Sunday pushed through Parliament a law incorporating the provision for trying political parties and organisations alongside individuals for 1971 war crimes. The amended 1973 International Crimes Tribunal Act also arms the government with the right, equal to defendants, […]
Source: The Daily Star. The following infographics is courtesy of Daily Star.
Source: The Daily Star Protesters from the Shahbagh grand rally on Friday afternoon demanded death penalty for all war criminals including Abdul Quader Mollah and a ban on the politics of Jamaat-e-Islami and Shibir. Lakhs of protesters demand death penalty to all war criminals including Jamaat leader Quader Mollah at […]
Source: The Daily Star. By Syed Badrul Ahsan Mohammad Ali Jinnah visited East Pakistan from March 19 to March 28, 1948. The visit was a disaster, seeing that instead of reassuring the Bangla-speaking people of his country on the language issue he ended up making them angrier than they were […]
Source: The Daily Star By Sushmita S Preetha Forty-two years after the Liberation War, sentiments of liberation were rekindled as thousands yesterday refused to leave the street and go home until their demand for capital punishment for war criminals were met. The spontaneous agitation began on Tuesday afternoon shortly after a […]
Source: The Daily Star. International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Tuesday sentenced Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah to life term imprisonment for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. Tribunal Chairman Justice Obaidul Hassan came up with the judgement after the summary of the 132-page verdict was read […]
Source: Niti Central Bangladesh’s Rajshahi district was on security alert after Jamaat-e-Islami activists warned of more political violence on Wednesday if the Government failed to release war crime suspects. The Rajshahi Metropolitan Police imposed section 144 on Tuesday night in four sections of the city, after Jamaati and Islami Chhatra […]
Source: Washington Times. By Begum Khaleda Zia ( Former President of Bangladesh) Will 2013 be a watershed in U.S.-Bangladeshi relations? My country of 150 million people, located between India and Myanmar, has been independent since 1971, when the United States was one of the first nations to recognize our right […]
Source : BBC News Bangladeshi police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse Islamist activists protesting at the trial of their leaders for war crimes allegedly committed during the independence war. At least 50 people, many of them police, were injured in the clashes. Supporters of the country’s […]
Source: BD News 24 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Bangladesh was pursuing a foreign policy with the principle of being ‘friend of all, and enmity with none’. She told the visiting delegation of the US House of Representatives that 5,409 elections had taken place under her government without […]
Source: BBC News A court in Bangladesh has sentenced a well-known Muslim cleric to death for crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 independence war. Abul Kalam Azad’s conviction is the first verdict handed down by the controversial tribunal. The cleric, a presenter of Islamic programmes on television, shot dead […]
Source: Reuters By Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW | Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:42pm IST (Reuters) – Russia on Tuesday granted Bangladesh a $1 billion loan for weapons purchases and $500 million to help one of Asia’s poorest countries build its first nuclear power plant, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. Putin moved […]
Source: http://www.genocidebangladesh.org Following is a timeline produced from historical records and recently declassified US documents during the Nixon administration. Full timeline can be viewed online at this LINK Click on the live links for in-depth contents 1930-47: Development of the Two Nations Theory which led to the Partition of the Indiansub-continent on the […]
Source: BDNEWS24 Tongi Ijtema ,Dhaka generally occur just late of the December month or early of the January. It really is one of the yearly Tablighi Jamaat as well as all muslim congregation that is held at the bank of the river Turag.Ijtema held in two phase.The event concentrates on […]
Source: Fast Company. Imagine a city of 18 million people, a place with few road markings and little signage, and a shambles of rickshaws, motorbikes, trucks, buses, and cars. Now imagine trying to take public transit without a map, and not knowing which company’s services go where. Many of us […]
Source: Scoop Independent News Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 4:03 pm Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-010-2013 January 8, 2013 A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission Bangladesh: Why Should Judicial Independence Be Delayed Any Further? The judiciary of Bangladesh is struggling to be an independent […]
Source: BBC News Situated in the blue waters of the Bay of Bengal, St Martin Island is one of the most beautiful places in Bangladesh. Popular with both local and foreign tourists, it is a coral island of sandy beaches, coconut palms and bountiful marine life. The island does […]
Source: The Hindu Op-Ed by Haroon Habib December is a landmark month for Bangladesh. It is the month of the liberation of the country from Pakistan in 1971. And it is also a reminder of a great national tragedy — it was during the same month that year that the […]