FOR MILLIONS of people in impoverished Bangladesh, it seems to have ushered a political blessing. The nation which fought a bloody war of independence in 1971 against Islamic Pakistan to establish secularism and democracy was obliterated by military juntas and autocratic governments.
Bangladesh's first constitution included secularism, democracy, socialism and nationalism as key political philosophy...
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Whenever the issue of trial of war-crimes is raised, the killers and collaborators say, ‘it was he who resolved the issue by declaring 'general mercy', so it is meaningless to discuss this issue and give much importance now. In a quest to find the truth about 'general mercy' activists dug out the newspaper clippings...
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In early 1990 two leading ladies of Bangladesh politics Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed were together on the streets struggling to overthrow the autocratic regime of General Ershad. Since early 90s excepting the two years of Care Taker/interim government, two ladies led what people call democratic government over the last two decades....
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The world came to know about the horror only a couple of days ago that the powdered milk products produced by the Sanlu Group in China were contaminated by melamine after hundreds of Chinese babies were hospitalized for having kidney stones and some had kidney failures. On 11th of September Sanlu first defended that...
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Is the politics in Bangladesh hard to predict? No its easy. It comprises of veneration of leaders of political dynasties without asking for any accountability. Most leaders of political parties try to grab power to have economic powers and plunder wealth. But yet people queue up to vote for them as if its a...
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The major political parties, including Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party were critical of chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed’s statement about the jurisdiction of the proposed Truth Commission regarding the top two politicians, Sheikh Hasina of Awami League and Khaleda Zia of BNP. Awami League, Workers Party of Bangladesh, Communist Party of...
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Convention of Sector Commanders’ Forum, Photo:Banglar Chokh Sector Commanders’ Forum have asked the government to immediately initiate process for trial of the hated war criminals, who perpetrated the history’s worst ever genocide during Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971. ‘As the government itself realised that the trial of the war criminals should...
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Photo: A screenshot of Executive Order 13224 blocking Terrorist Property. The US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice on March 6 designated Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami, Bangladesh as a ‘foreign terrorist organisation’ and as a ‘specially designated global terrorist’ under Executive Order (E.O.) 13224. The Harakat leader signed the February 1998 fatwa sponsored...
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William Sloan, President of Canada Chapter of American Association of Jurist(AAJ), currently visiting Bangladesh, was denied entry to a special court on February 19. Sloan, also an international human rights lawyer, went to the special judge’s court set up at the Jatiya Sangsad...
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