[ICSF’s Note: This piece by Dr Ahmed Ziauddin, a Member of International Crimes Strategy Forum (ICSF), was first published on 23 November 1999 at NFB, and now republished by ICSF after almost 15 years. The list of Pakistani war criminals mentioned in the article still merit consideration. It is our pleasure to bring this article into recirculation for…
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 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 moreAs I go to support Bangladeshi Activists who are demanding that human rights organisations stand with the victims of 1971, this is my letter to a former colleague at Amnesty International:…
Read moreHe is a man of many talents. He is simultaneously a lawyer, a lobbyist (he himself has admitted that and in any event it is quite obvious from his conduct as well as shall see), an activist (quite apparent from his ‘activities’ as we shall see) and an academic (from the amount of literature he…
Read moreSarmila Bose has been invited to key international policy talks on Pakistan over the last few years. This article looks at her connections to various think-tanks and policy groups in both UK and USA which possibly explains her research. …
Read moreShe came like a whirlwind causing a little tsunami in the US capital. The day was March 15, 2011 and the place of occurrence was the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.…
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