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Mar 02
Some pictures of unrest in Bangladesh on 02.03.13
Here are some collected pictures from around the web which give a brief insight into another day of unrest in Bangladesh following the verdict of Allama Sayedee. It is mentionable that at least four protesters have already died in clashes today A protest procession at Faridpur against the Sayedee verdict Protest at Jhenaidah against Sayedee …
Mar 02
The procession of death continues: 02.03.2013
The procession of death continued into another day in Bangladesh. Clashes occurred at Hashmat Ali Shop area of Shatkania in Chittagong when protesters demanding the release of Allama Delwar Hossain Sayedee (given death sentence by the International Crimes Tribunal for alleged crimes in 1971) clashed with security forces. Police fired live ammunition to disperse the …
Mar 02
Trial of Sayedee – Has justice been served?
I admit I’m no law junkie and neither do I have credible certified knowledge on the subject of law. But its goes without mention that one cannot avoid the implications that a judgement of law can have in the greater scheme of things, particularly when that judgement is paramount to writing and perhaps re-writing the …
Mar 01
February 28th 2013, a day a nation will mourn
An opposition activist shot to death by police (Source: Facebook page Basherkella) A picture speaks volumes. It sums up what happened to turn a day into a nightmare. Thursday the 28th of February 2013 was one of the worst days in living memory of a generation who had not witnessed anything of this magnitude, …
Feb 26
Thus spake the High Priest Imran H Sarker
From the lofty utopian perch of a Shahbaghized Mirpur 10, its High priest Imran H Sarker spake thus, 1. “Mahmudur Rahman is the atheist. He is the one spreading atheism and communalism through his newspaper“ (Criticising the government for not arresting Mahmudur Rahman yet, the Shahbagh activists addressing the gathering announced a decision to demonstrate …
Feb 26
Shahbag makes a kid hang himself
The news is shocking to anyone with a heart. At Companygonj in Noakhali, an adolescent of 13 years of age, Abdur Rahman Shakil, hanged himself to death. The sudden death occurred when Shakil used a mock hanging platform to enact a mock hanging hanging. Denizen of Lobon Bepari Bari of 3 no. ward of Boshurhaat …
Feb 26
3 more dead in Bangladesh: Legacy of death continues
An activist has died of injuries sustained in clashes with police on the 16th of February. He succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital in the capital Dhaka on Monday morning at around 11:30 am local time. Deceased Rahat was a resident of Kaistarael at Dokhin Surma in Sylhet. Injured Rahat being taken to …
Feb 25
5 martyred at Manikgonj: Daily Star vomits yellow
Yellow Journalism watches in envy as the Daily Star starts its scandalous report with the shocking words, “Four people were killed and 50 injured when police, attacked by marauding pickets, opened fire in Singair upazila of Manikganj during the countrywide daylong hartal on Sunday.” Humanity has died in us all. We have gone so deep …
Feb 24
Violence at half day hartal in Pabna on 23rd Feb
Jamaat-e-Islami had called for a half day hartal at Pabna in Bangladesh to protest the vandalism of its offices a day earlier. Two people were killed by police fire and 40 including 18 policemen were injured when law enforcers fired on processions of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir activists in Pabna on Saturday. Two more …
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