Monthly Archive: February 2013

Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal: Current status of proceedings: The current status of the tribunals are as follows: Convicted Abul Kalam Azad                                tribunal two: death sentence;…

Insanity for Humanity: Human Rights Violation : Police brutality on oppos…: Police watches allegedly ruling party men shots and moving opposition shibir activist on 12 Feb 2013 Police watches silently alleged…

Lynching is an extrajudicial execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a population of people. Lynchings have been more frequent in times of social and economic tension, and have often …

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Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal: Sayedee indictment – 1971 deaths: This is my third of four posts looking at the Tribunal’s 3 October 2011 order charge-framing Sayedee on 20 counts of international crimes i…

The narrative of romance surrounds the rhetoric, a smell of revolution wraps the message, and a torrent of self righteousness fills the soul. One gets so engrossed in the sweetness of the moment that all judgment and reason is thrown out of the window. Shahbagh has proven to be a dramatic call to change. Please …

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Namaaj-e-janaza in absentia for 4 Islamic activists martyred in Chittagong Yesterday on the 6th of February, Janaza (funeral) in absentia for four jamaat shibir activists took place at the Parade Maidan in Chittagong . The activists were martyred at the port city of Chittagong while observing the general strike called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami throughout the …

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It was a media stunt. Banglanews24 had been hosting an online poll which asked users the question, “Do you support the movement that is taking place in Shahbagh (Dhaka,Bangladesh) in favour of re-sentencing Abdul Quader Mollah?” As the screenshot shows, at 5:08 pm BDT today, the results were showing 3835 “YES” votes, while there was …

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The 4 martyred Islamist activists in Bangladesh were:1) Imran Khan (Islami Chatro Shibir)- 144th martyr 2) Shafiqul Islam (Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami)3) Mohammad Afzal (Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami) 4) Abid (Islami Chatro Shibir) – 145th martyr Furthermore, when the whole country was in uproar, some TV stations chose to allot more time to show a group of bloggers protesting …

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My heart is dying bit by bit as I write this. A young activist was shot in the head at 7:20 today evening. Mohammad Afzal was killed on spot, his head splattered with a bullet, blood oozing out of the fatal head wound. The shooter was not a criminal, not a drug dealer, nor a …

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A day after the Human Rights Watch released its ‘2013 World Report on Bangladesh’ labelled “Bangladesh: Government Backtracks on Rights”, the English daily Newage reported that the National Human Rights Commission chairman, Dr. Mizanur Rahman, criticised the Human Rights Watch report on the ongoing war crimes trial. Dr. Mizanur was reported as saying,‘It is very …

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