(Embedded Facebook status) Post by Rayhan Rashid. (Photo courtesy: Mission of Palestine) My name is Rayhan Rashid. I am a Bangladeshi living in Oxford, and I #SupportGaza. I ALSO THINK: * that in #Gaza, patterns of international crimes are evident with the State of Israel as the perpetrator. * that in #Gaza, the ruling Hamas and its…
Read more[Editor’s note: this piece by Dr Ahmed Ziauddin was originally published in the The Daily Star on March 29, 2008. Link. It is our pleasure to be able to republish it here for our readers.] Bangladesh still has not dealt with its past and the past has never left her. For any society, traumatized by…
Read more[Editor’s Note: This seminal piece by Dr Ahmed Ziauddin was first published on 27 October 1997 at NFB, and republished now after almost 17 years, the strategies mentioned in the article still merit consideration. It is our pleasure to bring this article into recirculation for readers interested in the issue of justice for 1971 genocide…
Read moreEven Jamaat’s official website admits collaborating in Genocide. Lying is bad but getting caught over that in an attempt to hide one’s well documented historical misdeeds is even worse. But again, those who know the nature of Jamaat-e-Islami and the way this outfit operates, also know that this organisation is no stranger to lies and subversion.…
Read moreThe large quantity of guilt attached to sexuality in patriarchy is overwhelmingly placed upon the female, who is, culturally speaking, held to be the culpable or the more culpable party in nearly any sexual liaison, whatever the extenuating circumstances. A tendency toward the reification of the female makes her more often a sexual object than…
Read moreIn the 1970s, Henry Kissinger, the former US Secretary of State, said that Bangladesh was a ‘basket case’ an ungovernable and chaotic nation with little prospect of succeeding into a viable nation state. He was wrong, flatly wrong; however there are still some fundamental issues in the country which are stunting the nations economic and…
Read moreSukhoronjon Bali was initially a witness for prosecution who went missing for a while. Later on the defense team brought him to the court as their witness. According to them Bali was abducted by the police when he was about to enter. David Bergman, a British journalist based in Bangladesh, has been devotedly reporting the detailed proceedings…
Read moreThis article is jointly written by Omar Shehab and Farhan Nasim. Photo courtesy: Arif Hafiz On 23rd March The Economistpublished an article titled ‘Justice in Bangladesh: Another kind of crime’ [1] criticizing the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT),Bangladesh. The article starts by dignifying the infamous Eichmann trial, a Second World War Holocaust case, which took place in Jerusalem…
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Without completely overhauling the justice system first, it is not prudent to use the war crime trials as a testing ground for abolition of DP.…
Read moreThis note is in response to a particular status of Toby Cadman which has been brought to my attention today. [here]. Through this status, Mr Cadman responded to an article I wrote on his role in defending Jamaat-E-Islami stalwarts currently being prosecuted at the International Crimes Tribunal (Toby Cadman: a Crusader for Rights or Devil’s…
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