Source: The Diplomat Blog By Sanjay Kumar “Remember Bangladesh is a young country and it is fighting hard to retain the spirit of secularism despite a looming threat from radical elements […]
Source: The Daily Star. DHAKA: Law enforcers take Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to jail on Thursday. International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced him to death as it found him guilty of five out of seven charges of wartime offences leveled against him. Photo: Focus Bangla A Dhaka tribunal on Thursday handed death […]
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 : 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 […]