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	<title>[ICSF] Media Archive &#187; Daily Star</title>
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		<title>Remittance inflow slows a bit</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/05/04/remittance-inflow-slows-a-bit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 09:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajiuddin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Star Business Report
Inward  remittances fell 2.43 percent to $1.08 billion in March compared to a  month ago, but the overall growth in the first ten months of the current  fiscal year reached near 11 percent.
During the period, more than  $1 billion was remitted from abroad by Bangladeshi migrant workers  every month, except September and November, according to data from the  central bank.
In March, remittances stood at $1.1 billion.
However, remittances increased by 10.41 percent to $10.61 billion in the first ten months of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>War Crimes Trial Team visits Ctg to tie up SQ Chy charges</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/22/war-crimes-trial-team-visits-ctg-to-tie-up-sq-chy-charges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arundhati Zilee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/?p=16988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A six-member probe team of the International Crimes Tribunal is now visiting Chittagong to investigate alleged crimes against humanity by BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury in 1971.
Their trip came as part of the preparation for the trial against Salauddin which is scheduled to start on April 29.
After arriving in Chittagong Thursday night, the investigation team talked to local people, leaders and victims&#8217; families, advocate Rana Das Gupta, a member of the ICT team, said at a press conference yesterday evening.
They will spend one more day here in connection with the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sayedee&#8217;s Trial ICT told of 23 incidents of atrocity</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/19/sayedees-trial-ict-told-of-23-incidents-of-atrocity/</link>
		<comments>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/19/sayedees-trial-ict-told-of-23-incidents-of-atrocity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arundhati Zilee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Delwar Hossain Sayeedi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indictment/Charge framing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The investigation officer who probed the war crimes charges against Delawar Hossain Sayedee yesterday gave an overview of 23 incidents of atrocity the Jamaat-e-Islami leader was allegedly involved in during the Liberation War.
They include mass murder, rape, arson, looting, abduction, torture and forced conversions of religion during the war.
Mohammad Helal Uddin, the 28th and last prosecution witness in the case against Sayedee, also presented as evidence many photographs and footage of the places where the atrocities were committed. He had recorded them during his investigation.
Places of mass murders, a building ...]]></description>
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		<title>A radical approach to depiction of the Liberation War Dinguli Kemon Chhilo premieres at Shilpakala Academy</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/19/a-radical-approach-to-depiction-of-the-liberation-war-dinguli-kemon-chhilo-premieres-at-shilpakala-academy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arundhati Zilee</dc:creator>
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Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy premiered a conceptual play, “Dinguli Kemon Chhilo”, on the Liberation War. To depict the immensity of the war, the academy has chosen a form known as “environmental theatre” for the production.
The play premiered on April 17 at the vacant space in front of the National Art Gallery. Ashish Khandakar, known as an expert in the theatre form, has conceptualised and directed the play.
Environmental theatre places a production in an environment similar to the one in which the play is set. Khandakar only used the space to create ...]]></description>
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		<title>Int’l Forum for Secular Bangladesh: Pakistan chapter launched to promote peace</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/19/int%e2%80%99l-forum-for-secular-bangladesh-pakistan-chapter-launched-to-promote-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khan Muhammad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh-Pakistan relation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/?p=16868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s civil society members yesterday launched the Pakistan chapter of International Forum for Secular Bangladesh &#038; Trial of War Criminals of 1971, aiming to promote peace and resist terrorism in the name of religion.
The chapter&#8217;s 31-member executive committee will comprise Pakistan&#8217;s human and social rights activists, journalists and academics and be led by Pakistan&#8217;s former attorney general and federal minister Barrister Sayed Iqbal Haider.
“The initiative will help promote better understanding between the people of our two countries (Bangladesh and Pakistan) as well as create a positive image of Pakistan abroad,” ...]]></description>
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		<title>War crimes probe targets &#8216;butchers&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/16/war-crimes-probe-targets-butchers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khan Muhammad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ashrafuzzaman Khan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charges to be pressed against Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, Ashrafuzzaman in 2 months

[Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, left, with the Prince of Wales at the Markfield Islamic Foundation, Leics on January 24, 2003. Photo: The Telegraph]
Investigations into suspected war criminals Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan are in the final stages, investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal told The Daily Star yesterday.
“We have made substantial progress in the cases against them,” said Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, chief investigator of the agency. “It could take a couple more months to move the charges [to the tribunal].”
The ...]]></description>
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		<title>ICT verdict on contempt rule against Sangram editor Apr 26</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/16/ict-verdict-on-contempt-rule-against-sangram-editor-apr-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arundhati Zilee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contempt]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/?p=16857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday fixed April 26 for delivering the verdict on a contempt of court rule against the editor and a reporter of the daily Sangram for publishing a report on the statement of Feni Bar Association’s lawyers regarding the activities of the ICT.
The rule was also issued against 12 lawyers of the bar association.
The ICT fixed the date after Sangram editor Abul Asad, the newspaper&#8217;s Feni correspondent AKM Abdur Rahim and 10 of the 12 lawyers appeared before the court and offered unconditional apology.
According to the ...]]></description>
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		<title>3 cases go to 2nd tribunal</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/16/3-cases-go-to-2nd-tribunal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arundhati Zilee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday transferred three cases against three war crimes accused to the other court – International Crimes Tribunal-2 – for quick disposal of the cases.
The accused are: Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretaries general Abdul Quader Mollah and Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, and former BNP lawmaker Abdul Alim.
The Tribunal-1 led by its Chairman Justice Nizamul Huq transferred the cases accepting three separate petitions filed the prosecution on Sunday.
The prosecution submitted the petition to the Tribunal-1 for transferring the case to the Tribunal-2 following amendment to the International Crimes (Tribunal) Act- 1973 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Nizami protested Pak atrocity Claims his counsel</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/16/nizami-protested-pak-atrocity-claims-his-counsel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arundhati Zilee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/?p=16971</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami did not commit any crime against humanity during the Liberation War, rather strongly criticised the attacks of Pakistani army on the Bangalees, Nizami&#8217;s counsel told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday.
&#8220;During the Liberation War in 1971, on many occasions, the petitioner [Nizami] strongly criticised the Pakistan army for their attacks on Bangalees,&#8221; said Tajul Islam, one of the counsels for Nizami, while reading out a petition of the Jamaat chief.
&#8220;However, his speeches [delivered during the Liberation War] were never reported in the newspapers because of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Prosecution appeals for transferring cases</title>
		<link>http://icsforum.org/mediarchive/2012/04/15/prosecution-appeals-for-transferring-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arundhati Zilee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its first appeal on transferring cases, prosecution on Sunday prayed to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 for shifting cases filed against war crimes accused Abdul Quader Mollah, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Alim to the tribunal-2.
The cabinet on April 9 approved the draft of the International Crimes (Tribunals) (Amendment) Act 2012 paving the way for transferring cases from one tribunal to another.
As the court began Sunday noon, Chief Prosecutor Ghulam Arieff Tipoo appealed to the ICT-1 to shift the three cases filed against the trio for their alleged crimes against humanity ...]]></description>
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