30 Dec 2012   05:46:37 PM   Sunday BdST
DHAKA: Former President of Supreme Court Bar Association Khandaker Mahbub Hossain on Sunday demanded resignation of Justice Nizamul Huq from High Court for alleged involvement in Skype conversation scandal.
“Justice Nizamul violated his oath through leaking secret information regarding war crimes trial over Skype conversation,” he said.
The senior lawyer of the Supreme Court made the plea while talking to journalists at a press conference at SC Bar Association.
He added: “Resignation of Justice Nizamul from International Crimes Tribunal …

Sun, Dec 30th, 2012 8:22 pm BdST

Dhaka, Dec 30 (bdnews24.com) — Bangladesh government’s top law officer threw his weight behind the prosecution at the first war crimes tribunal on Sunday.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, who has been attending the tribunal’s proceedings since last week, began countering retrial petitions of three Jamaat-e-Islami leaders indicted for war crimes and said there was no specific allegation as to how the trials were vitiated.
Alam said the court should not take into consideration the huge volume …

Monday, December 24, 2012
In the aftermath of the leaks of Skype conversations, one of the sticking points is whether the trials at Tribunal No.1, of which the now-resigned Justice Md. Nizaml Huq was the Chairman, should be held afresh. Keeping with the norm, the politicians and civil society members are divided into two opposing camps on this issue.
Some commentators have taken a very straightforward line mainly based on a provision of the ICT Act, 1973. Section 6 of the Act provides, among other …

Imagine if, mere days before our independence from the British Crown, British troops had systematically rounded up, tortured, and killed most of the brightest minds in our country (including our founding fathers) as a final act of oppression against a nation yearning to be free.
One this day 42 years ago, that is exactly the tragedy that befell Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Liberation War had already been raging for nine brutal months. The nation, then known as East Pakistan, was administered by a regime located thousands …

Pakistanis refuse to see Bangladesh eye-to-eye. They hide themselves behind a very shoddy narrative of the happenings of 1971 that only describes it as a conspiracy. It might well have been one. But who plotted against whom and when? What were the Bengalis up to? How did they reach the breaking point?
This article is Part 1 of a four-part series that attempts to see the happenings of 1971 in Pakistan from the point of view of the development of democracy in this country.
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Sat, Dec 8th, 2012 7:25 pm BdST

Dhaka, Dec 8 (bdnews24.com)—Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday termed ‘pretence’ Opposition Leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s visits to the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Mirpur to pay homage to the slain intellectuals.
The Pakistani occupation army aided by their local collaborators had brutally killed Bangladesh’s intellectuals at the fag-end of the Liberation War in 1971.
Hasina, also the President of the ruling Awami League, came up with the remarks while slamming the BNP for announcing …

আগরতলা করেসপন্ডেন্ট
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আগরতলা (ত্রিপুরা): আগরতলায় বাংলাদেশের মুক্তিযুদ্ধের সময়কার রিভলবার ও থ্রি নট থ্রি রাইফেলের সাতশ’ বুলেট উদ্ধার করেছে ত্রিপুরা পুলিশ।
সোমবার বিকেলে ত্রিপুরারাজের প্রাসাদ কুঞ্জবনের পাশের টেনিস কোর্টে মাটি খোঁড়ার সময়ে বুলেটগুলো বেরিয়ে পড়ে।
ওই স্থানে বাংলাদেশের মুক্তিবাহিনীর ক্যাম্প থাকার কথা স্মরণ করে মুক্তিযোদ্ধারাই সেখানে ‌এসব বুলেট লুকিয়ে রেখেছিলো বলে ধারণা করা হচ্ছে।
বুলেটের গায়ে ‘পি কে’ লেখা ব্র্যান্ডকে পাকিস্তানের পরিচয়বাহী বলে মনে করছে পুলিশ। এছাড়া ৬৫ ও ৭১ লেখা থাকায় এগুলোকে ১৯৬৫ থেকে ১৯৭১ সালের মধ্যে তৈরি বলেও ধারণা করছে তারা।
পুলিশ জানায়, টেনিস কোর্টে কিছু ছেলে মাটি খুঁড়তে গিয়ে প্লাস্টিকের ব্যাগে মোড়ানো মরচে …

Last Updated : Wednesday, November 14, 2012 12:45 AM

WORLD renowned lawyer and expert on war crimes Toby Cadman recently visited Saudi Arabia. The British lawyer is acting as legal consultant to Bangladesh lawyers who appear for opposition leaders accused of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 East Pakistan civil war that ended with the creation of the state of Bangladesh. Cadman’s mission during his visit to the Kingdom was to ask individuals who have influence to take the lead in raising the issue with the Bangladesh government.
In an exclusive …

১লা অক্টোবর, ২০১২

ভারতের আসাম রাজ্যের শিলচরের লোহারবন ট্রেনিং ক্যাম্পে সদ্য গেরিলা ট্রেনিং শেষ করে ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়ার বাঞ্ছারামপুর থানার ৫০ জনের একটি গেরিলা দলকে আগরতলার মেলাঘর, শালবন এবং অবশেষে ক্যাপ্টেন আয়েন উদ্দিনের অধীনে মনতলা ক্যাম্পে পাঠানো হয়। ট্রেনিং শেষ অথচ যুদ্ধে পাঠানো হচ্ছে না- এর জন্য মক্তিযোদ্ধারা প্রতিবাদ করেন এবং অনশন করার সিদ্ধান্ত নেন। ক্যাপ্টেন আয়েন উদ্দিন অনেক বুঝিয়ে মুক্তিযোদ্ধাদের অনশন না করার অনুরোধ করেন এবং ঘোষণা দেন ভারত সরকার অস্ত্র ও গোলাবারুদ বরাদ্দ দিলেই খুব শীঘ্রই যুদ্ধে পাঠানো হবে। পৃথিবীর ইতিহাসে যুদ্ধে যাওয়ার …

17 September 2012
Mubashar Hasan

In the past two years, four young Bangladeshi, including two women, scaled Mount Everest, becoming national heroes. More importantly, these individuals also became powerful political symbols, used on various sides, to disguise the failure of politics in Bangladesh.

Four young Bangladeshi mountaineers made their country proud when they hoisted the national flag at the top of the world—the peak of Mount Everest. This trend began in 2010 when a 30 years old journalist, Musa Ibrahim, became the first Bangladeshi ever to …

It is up to India to try to stop Sheikh Hasina ruining Bangladesh
THE Punch-and-Judy show of Bangladeshi politics, in which the ruling party—run by the daughter of a former president—bashes the opposition—run by the widow of a former president—before swapping places with it, has been running for decades. The outside world rarely pays attention because nothing seems to change.
Recently, though, the squabbling has turned into a crisis (see article) which threatens to make life still worse for the 170m poor Muslims who suffer under one of the world’s worst governments. …

The Economist magazine has taken an increasingly hostile snipe at Bangladesh and its government in two more articles where it also sees Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from planning to twist election results to cracking down on NGOs.
The disparaging articles appeared on the London-based magazine’s May 26 edition, also uploaded on its website on Friday, and censured her, taking sideswipes at the opposition led by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
In one of the articles titled ‘Bangladesh’s toxic politics: Hello, Delhi’, the magazine suggested India try to stop Hasina from ‘ruining Bangladesh’.
The other …