Friday, January 18, 2013
Police yesterday arrested Shahjalal Chowdhury, the main accused in the case filed for the attack on the Morichcha Dipankur Buddha Bihar under Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
Shahjalal is the Ukhia upazila chairman and nayeb-e-ameer of Cox’s Bazar Jamaat-e-Islami.
Abul Hashem, sub-inspector of Ukhia Police Station, said police arrested him from his house at Rajpalang around 7:00pm.
Soon after the arrest, Jamaat and BNP activists blocked the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf highway for about half an hour by burning tyres and holding rallies on the road.
Shops were …

Dec 02, 2012
Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ as theory suffers uncomplicatedness in comprehension, and can generate allurement en mass. For its vertical unpretentiousness, it could be a useful mannequin for foreign policy strategists. It could be misinterpreted which in turn could make world a lesser safe place endangering the human species.
Bangladesh was born in the midst of cold war rivalry, through struggle against colonial rule by freedom loving people. At birth Bangladesh vowed to uphold secularist principle in its constitution but after 40 years it has now lesser people in …

by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
September 22, 2012
In past ten years, in comparing to the growth of the total population in Bangladesh,there is an alarming decrease of Hindu population in the country. According to statistics available with the government sources, the proportionate decrease in Hindu population is around nine hundred thousand. The statistics show almost elimination of Hindu population in fifteen districts in the country. Most of the Hindu families in those districts were forced to leave the country. In 2001, the total number of Hindu population in Bangladesh was 16.83 …

[President Paul Kagame of Rwanda speaking at the anniversary commemoration of the 1994 genocide.(File Photo) (Photo Courtesy Government of Rwanda)]
Police in Brussels have arrested a Rwandan opposition politician, Boniface Rutayisire, who on Saturday April 7, tried to protest against the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis in the middle of a busy suburb of Brussels, Belgium.
Rutayisire was taken in on charges of disturbing public order, on the same day when more than 700 people took part in events organised by the Rwandan embassy in Brussels to commemorate the slaughter of Tutsis.
Reports say …

The US House of Representatives under the auspices of Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission organized a hearing on the continuing plight of religious minorities in South Asia, focusing particularly on Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The hearing was held in Canon House Office Building Room No: 340 on March 21, 2012 at 10 AM.
The following individuals gave their testimony in the hearing:

Leonard Leo, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom,
Majed El Shafie, Founder, One Free World International,
Amjad M. Khan, National Director of Public Affairs, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA,
Dr. Sachi …

Thu, Dec 1st, 2011 3:41 pm BdST
Dhaka, Dec 1 (bdnews24.com)—The government has found 26,352 persons involved with the violent repression on the Hindu minority and opposition activists immediately after the 2001 national elections, the home minister has said.
The process to put them on trial after pressing charges against them will begin ’soon’, Shahara Khatun told journalists at the Secretariat on Thursday.
The accused include 25 top-level leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, including a few former ministers, state-ministers and MPs of the past …

গত সোমবার ঢাকার রাজপথে পরিকল্পিতভাবেই পুলিশের ওপর নজিরবিহীন আক্রমণে নেমেছিল জামায়াত-শিবিরের কর্মীরা। সরকারের গোয়েন্দা সংস্থা, পুলিশ বাহিনীর চোখে ধূলো দিয়ে তারা কেবল রাজপথে মিছিলই করেনি, ব্যাপক তাণ্ডবও ঘটিয়েছে। শক্তি প্রদর্শনের অংশ হিসেবে পুলিশের গাড়িসহ ভাঙচুর করেছে অসংখ্য গাড়ি, আহত করেছে পুলিশ ও পথচারীকে। জামায়াত-শিবিরের এ জেহাদি মূর্তিতে অনেকে বিস্মিত হলেও এটি মোটেও অপ্রত্যাশিত ছিল না। বরং আমাদের চিরচেনা, একাত্তরের ঘাতক-দালালদের উত্তরসূরি জামায়াত-শিবির যে সাময়িক নীরব থেকে বর্তমান সরকারের আমলেই মরণকামড় দেবে, এটা তাদের রাজনীতি সম্পর্কে যাদের সামান্য ধারণা আছে তারা সবাই জানে। অত্যন্ত পরিকল্পিত এ তাণ্ডব তারা এমন সময় ঘটিয়েছে …

The defence team of Croatian general Mladen Markac sentenced to 18 years in jail for war crimes, has lodged an appeal to The Hague verdict, in which it refutes the existence of “joint criminal enterprise” (JCI) formed with intent to permanently remove the Serb population from Krajina area in Croatia.
The appeal argues that the court’s finding of the existence of JCI is based primarily on the transcripts of a meeting conducted on the Croatian islands Brijuni (Brijuni transcripts) that should not have served …

It is possible that Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War by Sarmila Bose is the definitive impartial account of Bangladesh’s liberation war that the author smugly claims it to be. But if her previous scholarship on 1971 is anything to go by, I wouldn’t count on it.
The reason that I doubt her grandiose and self-satisfied claim is that her previously published work on 1971 is replete with shoddy research and riddled with bias. Indeed, her arguments in her two articles published in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) on …

We are disturbed by the visible rise, in some parts of the country, of anti-Muslim bigotry resulting in sporadic attacks on Muslims and their places of worship. We deplore this and condemn it unreservedly. However, the authors of the letter you published (Islamophobia is a threat to democracy, 25 March) are quite wrong to equate legitimate concerns about the leadership of the East London Mosque and the Islamic Forum of Europe with anti-Muslim bigotry. To do so betrays those who have genuinely suffered discrimination. The East …